Dark Wings (Never Dark Book 1) Read Free

only weakness, a weakness other demons would try to exploit if they ever found out how much I loved her.
    You have until sunrise to leave Earth or I will come back and kill you. My lips twitched as her words rang throughout my mind. I could leave, but I had things I needed to do. Yes, the world was scheduled to end in the year three thousand, but at the deteriorating rate of humanity’s lack of humanity, well, the date has been pushed forward. In six months, Conquest, Famine, War, and I will destroy Earth and there’s nothing anybody can do to stop it.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Recollection
     
     
    Violet
     
    “ Violet, are you there?” a sweet, girly voice calls, pulling me out of my dreamless state.
    I open my eyes, my vision is blurred. I blink a few times and the sharp corners of the world return. I’m in a white room and a face is hovering above my own.
    “Violet? Can you see me?”
    I focus on the face—such a pretty face. She has light purple irises, thinly shaped blonde eyebrows, a small pointy nose, and heart-shaped lips.
    “Yes,” I reply.
    She takes my elbow and eases me into a seated position. My muscles ache and I feel uneasy. I glance around. I’m in a hospital… I think.
    “What happened? Where am I?”
    Sh e sits next to me on the bed and tucks a lock of her platinum blonde hair behind her ear. Her pretty yellow sundress looks so bright against my white hospital gown. She takes my hands in hers.
    “You died and Lucas found you.” She gestures to the man that’s leaning against my wall, arms crossed in front of his chest. I suddenly feel embarrassed as I recall my death. Lucas is handsome and tall. His black hair is short and messy. His brown eyes watch me curiously and I flush, not realizing that my eyes linger on him longer than I want them to.
    “ He brought you here to the Never Dark realm.” She inhales deeply. “You’re an angel now.”
    I glance out the window . In the distance I can see the bright moon hanging effortlessly in the night sky. I narrow my eyes. “Never Dark realm? It seems pretty dark outside…”
    She laughs and places a soft, manicured hand on my shoulder. “It’s not called the Never Dark realm because it’s never dark. It’s more of a statement… There are no demons here, no darkness.”
    I ran my fingers along my eyebrows, clearing the thin line of sweat that had somehow formed. Demons. Darkness. Angels… there is so much for me to understand.
    “ I died and I’m no longer on Earth?” I mumble. She nods.
    Surprisingly, I’m not upset. I feel empowered. I glance around the room, it looks like Earth. All the objects are the same. Slowly, I slide off the bed and land on my feet. I feel no pain. My death was brutal and yet I feel no pain. The woman takes hold of my elbow and assists me over to the window. I pull back the sheer curtains and squint as the lights from the city shine in on me. The city is exactly like Earth, there are tall skyscrapers and shops and people. There’s no luminous glow to anything. There’s no blinding whiteness to the world… Even though this is nothing like the heaven I imagined, I still believe her. Every muscle, bone, and blood vessel in my body is telling me she is telling the truth.
    My eyebrows furrow. “I know I should be overwhelmed or sad, but I’m not…”
    “ When you make the transition, your mind leaves all the painful feelings behind. You still remember them, but they don’t mean anything anymore,” Lucas says, joining us at the window. Strangely, I become self-conscious now that he is so close and I wrap my arms around myself. I think back to my previous life. It seems to be some kind of distant memory that doesn’t affect me—just like he said. In a million years I’d have never thought I’d be recruited to join some kind of angel army in a different realm. In my human life, I was always the victim, always the one who ended up hurt. I was naïve, determined to see the good in everyone and that