Lucius knew the most powerful among them, the Seraphim, only had to think of a place and their bodies were carried to it. Every second it took to reach Wila he’d prayed for the ability. When he saw her standing in the doorway…relief didn’t begin to cover the feelings that all but dropped him from the sky. It wasn’t big enough.
One minute he was landing the next they were inside the folds of his wings. Like so much about angels nothing man made could penetrate his wings. There was no safer place. Breathing fast, his whole body shaking, he held her tight to his body. The fill of her body reassuring him she was safe in his arms.
“I was so scared. Our hearts have been one since we married, what happened?” He put his noise in her hair, breathed in the comforting smell of her, it helped calm him. He ran his hands up and down her back.
Wila laid one hand on his chest the other she took his and placed on her stomach. “Our baby,” she whispered.
Slowly Lucius opened his wings and pulled Wila in the house, closing the door. He made his way to the couch, maneuvered Wila to the front of it and helped her sit down, all without taking his hand from her stomach. He looked at it in wonderment.
“Where were you?” She asked, stroking his hair trying to take the last of his panic away.
“Small town in Alabama,” he said in a low voice finally peeling his eyes away from her midsection and looking at his beautiful wife.
“It only took you ten minutes to get here,” she said, smiling down at him.
“Nine minutes and fifty nine seconds too long.” Lucius had been working on his angel’s demeanor and he was rewarded with a smile.
I was so sure something had happened to you. Something bad enough to…”
She cut the words off with a kiss. “You’re upsetting the baby. Do you feel her?”
Lucius hand still rested on Wila’s stomach and the fluttering beat that had set his flight home in motion was irregular but still strong.
“Yes,” he said, still speaking in a low voice, he didn’t have the breath to speak any louder. “Wila, why didn’t you tell me before I left?”
“I didn’t know before you left. I only just thought it could be yesterday when the silly crown turned into a wreath of flowers.”
Lucius laid his head on her stomach and closed his eyes.
“I’m sorry you worried, I promise if I had known I would have called you yesterday,” she whispered while she rubbed his hair.
“I never imagined in any world, in any lifetime that I could be deserving of you or your love. You are my reason for existing.”
“It’s the same for me.
It had been difficult for him to leave her before. There were enough angels to offer her protection. There hadn’t been a real threat on her life, or on Amara’s, but with the defection they no longer had any way of knowing what was going on in heaven.
“I know,” Wila said, reading his mind.
He would not leave her again. The thought of it made his chest tight and the place on his shoulders where his wings were itch. He trusted every angel on their side to give their life for her and their unborn but there were something’s that a man…a angel had to do for himself and protecting his family was one of them.
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