Summary
Maggie is unaware of the terrifying fate that awaits her. It
isn’t until she lands in New Orleans for a full year at a private high school
and her unknown enemies find her does she realize that her life is in danger.
As a mystifying stranger repeatedly intervenes and blocks
the attempts on her life, she begins to learn that there is more to him than
his need to protect her and that he may be the key to understanding why her
enemies have just now arrived.
“So you’re warning me away from you?” I was appalled. “Then
why are you doing this…guarding me at all? Why the torment? Why watch over me
when you know that…that we should be more?” I felt on the verge of tears, which
amazed me. How could pain be so sharp in the afterlife? “Answer me, Eran. Why?”
He sighed. “Because it is my job.”
I gasped, more offended than I’d ever been. “I’m a job to
you?” I stared at him and waited for his head to rise but he refused to look at
me.
“Yes,” he said weakly, defeated. His beautiful, rugged voice
released as a whimper and the pain inside me grew. “You are just a job.”
I didn’t think it was possible but the emptiness I’d felt
with Eran being gone those many weeks held no comparison to the magnitude of
what I was experiencing right now.
I felt as if I had been gutted.
“No…” I shook my head. “I don’t believe you because you see,
Eran, I can feel your emotions run through me. Whether you want to admit them
or not, I know how you feel about me.”
Stunned, his head jerked up, his brilliant blue-green eyes
drilling into mine. “You feel me too? How can that be?”
“I don’t know. But I do know that I feel in you the same
emotions I have.”
He groaned and turned away. “That’s not possible…” he
muttered, pausing. When he spoke again his voice was strained, determined. I
drew in a breath as the intensity of these emotions ran through me. “It doesn’t
matter. I won’t let this happen. This will not happen…I will not let us be
together.”
“Because you are my guardian? Then let me make it easy on
us…You’re fired.”
“It doesn’t work that way, Magdalene,” he said, quieter but
still resolute.
“I didn’t want you to watch over me, Eran. I never asked for
it.”
As if he’d become an entirely new person, his reply was flat
and detached. “You’re a messenger. You require a guardian. It’s as simple as
that.”
“Then we’ve just solved the issue, didn’t we?” I said
causing him to finally look up. “This will be my last message. It’s from me to
you…goodbye Eran.”
Turning swiftly, I walked away just before the tears came.
Author Bio
Laury Falter is the bestselling author of the Guardian
Trilogy (Fallen, Eternity, & Reckoning). When she isn't writing, she likes
to take her two stray dogs for walks and enjoy date nights with her husband.
Laury's debut novel, Fallen, hit Amazon's Top 100 list in
three genres and the remaining two books in the trilogy made showings in the
Top 100 of the same genres as well. With a new series available, Residue, about
a teenage girl who learns she is a witch and falls in love with a boy from a
feuding family, her reader following continues to grow rapidly.
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