Accidentaly Divine by Dakota Cassidy (books to read romance .txt) 📕

to clip you with my wings, but you weren’t supposed to die that night, George. You were going to be severely injured and it would have taken months for you to heal, but you weren’t supposed to die. That means, no one would be coming after you for your wings if I’d have just let your destiny happen.”

Whoa, whoa, whoa. She was meant to live after falling nine stories? She’d never even considered that. That would have probably been pretty ugly.

“I wasn’t supposed to die?” she squeaked in disbelief.

“Technically, you didn’t die. You’re still half alive.”

“Isn’t that called semantics, Dex?”

“I swear to you, it was instinct. I was watching out for you—”

“Wait, you were watching me the night of the party?” Her face went hot and probably a shade of red that was anything but attractive.

That meant…

She’d had…she’d had intimate moments with Darren. She showered naked.

“No, George. It’s not what you think. I can’t intrude on you during intimate moments or when you’re changing or anything like that. I wasn’t stalking you, I was doing my job. I was watching out for your safety when you fell. Instinctually, I swooped in to help you, but we’re not supposed to do that. We’re supposed to let fate take its course.”

Okay, she felt a little better that he’d hadn’t been watching her bathe, but she could still be fully alive if he hadn’t played hero. Dex was right. If she wasn’t half-angel, some lunatic demon wouldn’t be running around chasing after her for her wings, which could mean she’d lose her soul, thank you very much.

She was afraid to take this conversation any further. Leaning against the back of the car, her legs shaking, she said, “Okay…”

“There’s more,” he said, a tic in his temple appearing.

More… “Well, what’s left, Dex?”

“No one upstairs knows about you.”

She cocked her head, her heart beating even faster. “Say again?”

He rasped another sigh, as though it were her fault she was in this position. “I said, no one upstairs knows about you yet. That’s why getting info on assignments has been so sketchy and why I haven’t taken you up there to meet everyone.”

Her mouth fell open in surprise, but she slammed it shut. “So basically, I’m nowhere again? I have nowhere to be because no one knows I exist?”

“It’s not like that, George. Titus is going to get you squared away. He promised.”

“And who decided to hide me like the ugly stepsister?”

His face went stony again. “That’s not how it is. And does it matter?”

“Yes, it matters, Dex! You did something that went against the rules and saved me from cracking my head open on a sidewalk. Then you accidentally nicked me with your wings, but you didn’t give me the full advantage of having a job as important as this because you didn’t want anyone to know you’d clipped me—because that meant you’d get in trouble and they’d make you go back upstairs and you’d have to leave the rescue, right? So basically, you’ve been buttering me up the entire time you’ve been tutoring me to learn how to angel?”

She saw him grit his teeth and watched as his fists clenched. “That isn’t true at all. I haven’t been buttering you up, George. I would never do that.”

Her eyes bulged from her head. “Then why didn’t you tell me?”

His silence said it all. It said everything.

Everything she didn’t want to hear.

“You know, you could have been honest with me, Dex. I might have been upset, but you didn’t have to cozy up to me so I wouldn’t tattle on you.” Her heart ached. It hurt to think he’d stuck around to keep her mouth shut. To appease her so she wouldn’t snitch, and she couldn’t bear it. “Go home, Dex. I need some space.”

She turned her back on him then so he wouldn’t see her tears, falling to the ground in fat splotches.

He approached and put a hand on her arm. “George, please listen to me. I didn’t—”

But she shrugged him off, unable to turn around, her throat so tight, she almost couldn’t breathe. “No more, Dex. I can’t do anymore today. I need space. Please.”

“Then if you hear nothing else, hear this. I didn’t stick around to butter you up and keep you from telling anyone anything. I like you, George. Probably a lot more than I should, and I would never do anything to hurt you. Not ever.”

He waited a moment, clearly to see if she would respond and when she didn’t, she heard his footsteps as he walked away.

Shuddering a breath, George heard Wanda open the door and make her way to where she stood, rooted to the spot. Placing a hand on her arm, she asked softly, “Hey, honey. You okay?”

George nodded, but she couldn’t say anything.

“No. You’re not, and I know you’re not.”

“You heard?”

Wanda came around to face her and nodded, her cheeks turning red from the cold. “I did, and I don’t want to meddle, but I’m going to meddle,” she said on a chuckle. “You don’t really believe Dex was buttering you up to keep you from telling on him, do you? Because that’s nonsense, and I think you know that, honey. You didn’t even know about the rescue until just recently. Wanna know what I think?”

Wiping her eyes, George snorted. “Are you asking me because I have a choice?”

Wanda winked and grinned, her raspberry lips tilting upward. “You don’t. Do you really believe he did this out of malice? That he didn’t tell you because he’s such a jerk he’s saving his own skin at your expense?”

She swallowed as the wind pulled at her clothes. “No…” she murmured. “I guess I don’t.”

“I didn’t think so. Do you think it could be other forces at work that kept him from telling you?”

“Like?”

She shrugged with a warm smile. “I don’t know, but I do know Dex at least enough to know that he’d never deceive you without a bigger reason than saving his own hide. And that’s all I’ll