Breaking An Angel

Chapter 21: Fraction of Pain

ADONIS POV

I’m finally arriving home after a long ass day of dealing with classes, and now I have to come home and deal with all this supernatural bullshit. I’m thankful for the whole gifts thing, but I was doing fine without it and now having to live for an eternity kind minimizes anything I’m interested in doing.

I’ve also been missing Jo like crazy, so much so that it hurts. Feelings are so debilitating, so I’ve opted to not feel at all, I’ve just numbed it all away, one of the perks of the demon gifts. I don’t think Achilles or Alexius have noticed this one, but if I tell them they’ll just go on a rant about how feelings are good and sing a campfire song.

Lately I’ve had to avoid Jo as much as possible because the longer I’m in her presence I can sense that all my emotions are rushing back. I refuse to allow that to happen, at least until I’m able to forgive her. Maybe I’m being petty but I just can’t get over how she planned to omit crucial information about herself.

I’m walking into the house and I see two figures lounging around in the family room, Alexius and Raph are playing video games like children. Lately Alexius has been getting along really well with the Angels, he’s really been embracing the whole baby celestial with demonic powers thing. It’s caused a rift in our relationship since he spends most of his time training now.

“Hey dude you’re home early,” Alexi said.

“Yeah, I figured I’d get some rest, I’m just going to head to bed.”

“Why don’t you play a little before you go up?” Raphael asks as he shakes the controller at me.

“Nah, I’m just tired.”

“Adi wait,” Alexi chimes in before I walked up stairs, it seemed like they were trying to keep me here for seem reason.

“Lex what the hell, I just want to go to bed, unless you have a valid reason for keeping me here, I’m going upstairs,” I scowled.

He threw his hands up in surrender, “nope, no reason, have a goodnight.”

As I was making my way up the stairs, I could hear them whisper to each other but I couldn’t exactly hear about what.

Fucking Children

I made my way towards P’s room, I haven’t seen her in a while, I’m usually gone before she wakes up and back by the time she’s asleep, I should at least let her know I’m home.

I knock on her door but don’t get an answer, so I knock again and still nothing, I decide to just take a peak and see if she’s already sleeping. To my surprise there my sister was wrapped up with Jo in her arms. I walked a little closer and noticed that Jo had been crying, her eyes looked puffy, her nose was red, and her face still had tears staining it.

What the hell happened here; I knew that they were friendly with each other but I didn’t know they were this close.

I walked back downstairs to ask Alexius if there’s anything going on that I should know about and once again I find Raphael and him whispering like school children.

“What’s going on with Penelope and Jo?” I ask them, grabbing their attention from their little gossip session.

They both look at me then look towards each other as if asking themselves if they should let me in on their little secret.

“Umm Jo needed some help,” Alexius spoke up.

“What kind of help?”

This time Raphael responded, and he did not look too happy, “the kind only an empath can provide.”

I stood their trying to figure out what they meant, but then it hit me that she wanted to get her emotions syphoned. Has she really been in that much pain that she decided to ask Penelope for help?

Have I really been this oblivious, while I had Penelope to syphon me, and then was able to shut them off due to my demonic gifts she had to deal with it on her own?

I’m so f*****g selfish.

How could I do this to the woman I claim to love, she may have lied to me but she definitely doesn’t deserve this. I need to fix this; I need to fix us.

My thoughts are interrupted by Alexius’ big mouth, “dude are you crying?”

I don’t think I am, but as soon as I check my face, I can feel wet tears streaming down.

“Shut up,” I say to Alexius hoping he’ll listen.

“Hey man no judgement here, let it all out, it’s about time,” he responded.

“It’s nice to see you cry after the endless nights I’ve had to comfort my sister,” Raphael snarled.

“Aren’t you supposed to like want happiness for all God’s children?” I ask him.

“All bets are off when you hurt my siblings, plus you’re not one of Father’s children, you’re Luci’s and no one said anything about Father’s grandkids.” Raphael smiles at me.

Alexius stands up and claps his hands together, “sooo... now that that’s in the open, we can all be friends, right?”

“No!” We both respond simultaneously.

“Okay well, Adonis, quit being an asshole and talk to Jo already and Raph let them deal with their relationship like adults.”

“Now we are going to be friendly damn it!” Alexius growled.

PENELOPE POV

I woke up the next morning to find Jo still sound asleep in my bed, I didn’t want to wake her up since it seemed like this was the first time she’s had a good night’s sleep so I’ll just leave her to it.

I got dressed and made my way downstairs to get breakfast before heading to work. Walking into the kitchen I find Adonis, Alexi, and Raph eating breakfast chatting it up, except all I felt was a blinding rage. And all of it was aimed at Adi.

I walked up to Adonis and before he could open his mouth to talk, I clocked him right in the jaw. Alexius flew out of his chair while Raph just stood there trying to suppress his smile.

“What the f**k Penelope!” Adonis screamed at me.

Poking my finger at his chest I yelled back, “don’t you ‘what the f**k Penelope’ me you asshole. Le estás rompiendo el corazón a Jo, arréglalo (you’re breaking her heart, fix it).”

“So, you decide to hit me?” He asks.

“You’ll heal and that is only a fraction of the pain she’s feeling, I can definitely make you feel everything she’s been going through, don’t test me.”

I sat down in an open seat, I definitely didn’t think this through, I may have broken my hand, it hurts like I b***h. I don’t want to cry though so I’m going to have to take a silent L for this one.

“So, who’s getting my breakfast?” I ask waiting for them to serve me for putting up with their constant stupidity.

Raph got up and started serving me, “I got you babe, you deserve this one,” he said with a wink. He walked back over to me and placed the plate in front of me, then placed his hand on top of mine. A small warm sensation shot through my hand followed by a glowing light emanating from his hand.

“Thank You,” I whispered once I realized that he had healed my bruised hand.

We finish breakfast in silence, then Adi says he has to leave for class early, but I think he might still be avoiding Jo. At this point I think he’s just scared. As I’m taking another bite of my food my phone rings, but it’s an unknown number.

I answer the phone, “Hello.”

“Penelope?”

“Yes, who is this?”

“It’s Beckett... Wryn.”

“Oh, hi, what can I do for you?” I ask taking a sip of my orange juice.

“I was wondering if your offer to meet still stands?”

“Sure, but Azrael would have to be there.”

I hear a low growl at the mention of Azrael, “that’s fine with me as long as I get to see you.”

I can feel myself blush, Raph and Alexi just look at me confused, “okay, we can meet up at my place, I’ll text you the address, do you have anytime you’d prefer?”

“You tell me a time and I’ll be there.” He responds.

“Okay I’ll text you, Bye.” I quickly hang up the phone and I can see that the guys were still staring.

“Who was that?” Alexius asks.

“Umm Beckett Wryn...”

“You mean the werewolf?” Raph asks looking at me sideways. “You know you’re still blushing.”

I sank into my seat as they both continued to watch me, taking small bites of my already cold pancake. I feel guilty for the sudden rush of emotions I’m getting just by hearing Beckett’s voice. I don’t need him, I have Azrael and he makes me feel complete, so why am I feeling this.

Azrael is enough for me, I can’t do this to him, I can’t feel this way towards Beckett. My relationship with Beckett is strictly professional, maybe if I say it enough, I’ll end up believing it.

“So how does Azrael feel about your little wolf friend?” Alexius asks me.

How does he feel? When Gabi and I first told him about Beckett he was livid, I even tried to reassure him by having s*x with him but he refused. Then Remiel showed up and it kind of just got pushed back and forgotten.

What if he gets upset that I agreed to meet with Beckett?

“I’m not really sure, we haven’t really had the time to talk about it. Do you think he’ll be upset?”

“RazRaz doesn’t share, but when he looks at you, it’s with nothing but love, he won’t be mad at you. You just better hope they don’t challenge each other, no matter how powerful an Alpha is Azrael is still an Archangel and immortal, he’ll kill your little wolf.”

“I’m not some thing to be fought over I’m a person,” I retort.

“It doesn’t matter, it’s tradition, when a wolf has two mates, they challenge each other, and Azrael is never one to back down from a fight.” Raphael tells me as he’s picking up our plates.

“Traditions are meant to be broken.”