《Angel of Mercy》Chapter 43
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Ethan was stopped by Huxley on his way to the stables with Reggie. They had dressed as warmly as possible and carried a few provisions of water and food just in case.
"Sir, there's something else you should know." Huxley said.
"And what is that?" Ethan asked. In no mood for any more surprises.
Huxley held up a letter.
"This was found in Lucas's pocket. It's from the Angels of Mercy."
Ethan took the letter. It was dirty and bent, the top ripped open.
"He must have been stealing our mail." Huxley deduced, apologetically.
Ethan pulled the letter out and quickly scanned the elegant script. It said once Emma finished her assignment at Lavender Hall, she would be given a month leave for the holidays.
Meaning there really was no elderly man in Leeds.
Ethan pocketed the letter.
"Thank you for bringing this to me Huxley."
"Do be careful sir." Huxley cautioned.
"Aren't I always?" Ethan jokes.
Huxley did not smile.
"I'll be watching his back," Reggie reminded him.
Huxley did not appear comforted by this statement.
"Now we really must be off," said Ethan.
At least he wasn't as weak as the last time he attempted to rescue Emma. The snow was blinding and the tracks from the carriage earlier had disappeared. He assumed they would head toward London, leaving Emma somewhere along the way.
Reggie was silent beside him as they plodded along. After a while he stopped feeling the cold, the snow looked almost magical blowing by, the world a dark abyss.
"You really love her then?" Reggie asked.
It was hard to hear over the wind, but they were close enough to each other Ethan could make out his words.
"I do," he answered.
"That must be nice." Reggie said, wistfully.
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"I'm sure you'll find a nice girl someday." Ethan surmised.
Reggie shrugged.
After that they didn't speak until they spotted the Salisbury carriage.
Ethan urged Aquila to move faster and overtook the carriage forcing the coachman to stop. It was then Ethan noticed the coachman wasn't in his employ. Reggie leaped from his horse and grabbed the man before he could get away then Ethan hurried to the carriage door. It opened before he could touch the handle and Peter poked his head out into the swirling snow and cold.
"I say why have we stopped? We have at least another –
But Ethan cut off his next words by grabbing the man's shirt collar and punching him in the face. Peter fell out of the carriage into the snow, blood now staining the white powder red.
"Salisbury!" he exclaimed. "What are you doing here? I think you've broken my nose!"
Ethan ignored him and clambered inside. Emma was huddled in the corner. A picnic basket was held in front of her for protection.
"Emma are you well?" Ethan asked, sitting beside her.
Emma lowered the basket. Her expression immediately changed from fear to relief.
"Oh, Ethan you're okay!" Emma cried, dropping the basket, and throwing herself into his arms.
"Yes, I am." he said, holding her tightly, "But are you?"
"I'm fine," she said. "I was so worried! I thought Lucas was going to kill you!"
"Ah so Peter mentioned Lucas Wright did he." Ethan observed unsurprisingly.
Emma pulled back. "Yes, did he come to Lavender Hall?"
"He did." Ethan confirmed. "But Reggie took care of him."
"How?" Emma asked, perplexed.
"He shot him."
"He did?" Ethan could tell by Emma's expression this wasn't at all in character with the Reggie that she knew.
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"Well, it was either shoot Lucas or allow him to shoot me."
"Reggie saved you?"
Ethan nodded. "He's outside now."
"What an odd series of events." Emma mused, laying her head on Ethan's shoulder. "I'm so glad you're here."
Ethan kissed the top of her head. "There's no other place I'd be." He lifted her chin with a finger so he could look into her eyes. "Emma, I love you with all my heart. It scares me how deeply my feelings run. I don't think I could handle losing you, but now I know there's one thing I won't let you do and that's walk away."
Emma rested her hand on his chest, he knew she could feel the rapid pounding of his heart. More from being near her then the harrowing ride to find her.
"What about the ton? What about what they will say?" Emma questioned quietly.
"I already told you it matters, not to me what they think. But if anyone is cruel or says a hateful word to you, they will have me to answer too." Ethan promised.
"Even if that gives you the reputation of acting like a beast?" Emma inquired.
Ethan grinned. "They already think that."
Emma kissed his cold cheek. "For now, but I intend to change that."
"I won't disagree with you on that. I've learned not to question your healing capabilities."
"Good. I'm glad that's settled."
"So, you'll marry me?" Ethan asked, having lost track of how many times it was now he had asked her to be his wife.
"I will," Emma agreed. "On one condition."
Ethan's heart dropped. "What's that?"
Emma took his hand and placed it on her breast. "We have a short engagement."
Ethan let out the breath he had been holding, "That can be arranged."
Emma smiled. "Good. And one more thing."
"Yes?"
"Kiss me."
And so quite enthusiastically he did.
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ကံကြမ္မာစေရာ [OC] (Completed)
"အမေ အခုကျွန်တော့်ကို ၁၉နှစ်အရွယ် ကလေးသာသာကောင်မလေးနဲ့ လက်ထပ်ခိုင်းနေတာလား""ဘုန်းမြတ်မင်းသွေး""အကိုက မှူးကို သနားလို့ လက်ထပ်မယ် ပြောတာလား ဒါမှမဟုတ်အကို့ကို သစ္စာဖောက်ခဲ့တဲ့ မိန်းမကို စိတ်နာလို့ သူ့ကိုရွဲ့ပြီး မှူးကိုလက်ထပ်မှာလား""မြမှူးသော်တာ""ကိုဘုန်းက ငါ့အတွက်တော့ ၀ှက်ဖဲတစ်ခုပဲ ငါအပြင်မှာရှုပ်ပွေလို့၀ရင် ကိုဘုန်းရဲ့ မိဘတွေကိုဆန့်ကျင်ပြီး ကိုဘုန်းကိုရအောင်လက်ထပ်မှာ ပြီးရင်တော့ ကျန်တဲ့ဘ၀ကို ဆရာ၀န်ကတော် ဆိုပြီး သိက္ခာရှိရှိနဲ့ ဖြတ်သန်းတော့မှာ""ရွန်းလဲ့ယမုံ"သူတို့သုံးဦးရဲ့ စိတ်၀င်စားဖွယ်ဇာတ်လမ်းက ဘာတွေဆက်ဖြစ်မှာလဲ.............?Zawgyi"အေမ အခုကြၽန္ေတာ့္ကို ၁၉ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ကေလးသာသာေကာင္မေလးနဲ႔ လက္ထပ္ခိုင္းေနတာလား""ဘုန္းျမတ္မင္းေသြး""အကိုက မွဴးကို သနားလို႔ လက္ထပ္မယ္ ေျပာတာလား ဒါမွမဟုတ္အကို႔ကို သစၥာေဖာက္ခဲ့
8 207A Dance With Hades
I move my foot back to try and run away but they notice my subtle movement and stop whispering."I wouldn't do that," the man in the navy suit says while lifting his gun. He doesn't point it at me but he might as well just shoot me already."You run, we'll catch you, then maybe kill you," the man with the big gun says and I quickly nod. "Good girl," he chuckles.He gets back to whispering with his two friends and I stay motionless, not attempting to get myself shot.Why do they even want to take me home? I'm just some random girl that probably walked just walked into a murder scene.Shit.----What happens when the King, a man dubbed as Hades, is in need of a Queen?He possesses her angelic soul with his devilish ways and infects her with his chaotic love, filling her with his poison.She will step onto the dancefloor and he will take her hand, crowning her as his queen, the queen of the underworld.
8 450Hiding from my Mate (COMPLETED)
When your mate is an Alpha and you're the rogue that causes all the trouble, you can't exactly go up to him and say "How's it going big guy! Even though I've been causing trouble in your pack and school, I'm sure you'll love to know that I'm your destiny for the next fifty years until you end up 6 feet under." So no. I wasn't going to tell him that I was the future Luna of his pack. Who in their right mind would do that? Unfortunately, matters of the heart is something the brain doesn't seem to understand.**© alw_13 All rights reserved*Cover picture found on Google images, edited.
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