Fall From Grace(99)

Blake’s breath caught and he squeezed my throat harder, blocking the air from my lungs.  I felt his body convulsing with laughter.  “All you humans are so ignorant,” he said leveling his eyes to mine.  “Do you really think he’ll save you?”  He brought his lips to my ear and exhaled deeply, “He’d love to watch you burn, so he could roast marshmallows in your burning embers.  Go ahead, call him, listen to the silence of your prayers.”

I closed my eyes and let my body go completely limp in his hands.  I let my arms swing down to my sides and dangle against my body.

“I’d forgotten how weak these human bodies are,” he chuckled.  “I always envied him because of you; this body looks so much like her.  I’m going to enjoy ripping you open.  Unconscious or not, although, I’d give my soul to watch your face as I do it.”

The second his hands loosened on my neck to take himself out of his pants, I grabbed the first thing I could grab, which was a snow globe on the dresser that was next to us.  With all my strength, I slammed in against the side of his head. The cracking sound was almost sickening, but it honestly made me feel powerful.

Blake’s body flew against the wall and I smashed the globe at him again.  He only looked stunned, but he leaned heavily against the wall with a confused look crossing over his face.

“You forget, I have nothing to lose.  I’ve been sentenced to hell, just like you!” I ran for the door and fumbled with the lock.

Blake grabbed his arms out for me stumbling towards the door.

I opened it hard and thrashed it against his body.  I bolted down the hallway and screamed for Gabriel.  The house was empty, even Shane had gone.  Shane.

I’ll never forget the look on his beautiful face when I walked away with Blake.  What I just did was unforgivable. He would never forgive Grace, and he shouldn’t.  If I lived through this night, I would tell him.  Tell him everything; because what secrets should I hide anymore?  Why had I kept these secrets? Was it because people would think I was crazy?  Or, because I didn’t want everyone to know how truly cruel the world was?  I screamed for Gabriel again, but Blake was right.  No one answered me.

I thrust open the front door to the cold muteness of the snow; the angels continued their pillow fight.  “Gabriel!  Don’t do this to me!  Gabriel!”  Silence answered, heavy and smothering.

I searched for a place to hide. There was nothing but snow as far as I could see.  I held my breath and plunged my body into the cold wet snow.  I waded in the thigh high drifts and made it to what I would have guessed about twenty feet from the front porch, when I heard Blake cursing from the porch behind me.

My clothes became icy and stung my skin, burning my flesh every time I moved.  But, I wouldn’t stop.  Ever.

I could hear Blake as he grunted through the snow after me.  I pushed ahead, beyond freezing, with exhaustion had already set in.  The more I moved, the more my mind fogged and my body staggered.  My entire body numbed.

I dragged my body further, but it was too much time out in the cold snow, the end of my vision blurred and the world spun around me.  I couldn’t give up, I couldn’t let Blake have her.

I didn’t know how fit Blake’s body was, but mine was trying to shut down. It screamed against the cold and begged my soul to give up.

I stumbled again when a shattering pain jarred my body and spiraled through my head.  Something jerked my body violently, causing agony to surge through my veins.  The faint hum of a snowmobile gave me the smallest bit of hope.