Authors: Nikki Prince
“Tessa…”
There was no answer but the tinkling of a bell and the softest touch against her cheek in that same spot that had been touched before. Angelo whispered softly in her ear.
“Tessa is trying to tell you that she’s okay, and that she needs the same for you.”
Behind her closed eyes she, could see her daughter, with her beautiful unruly, corkscrew hair, her sweet bow-shaped lips and trusting brown eyes staring into hers, and then she felt small arms take hold of her and embrace her. Tessa, this was Tessa in her arms. She could smell her sweet baby soft skin once more and even touch her.
Tears fell, coating her cheeks, but they were tears of joy this time. As she held her baby, she knew she would be alright. She didn’t know how Angelo had done this, but she didn’t care. This was what she’d needed, her child in her arms, holding her again and telling her that she was fine. She held her for what seemed like hours.
Then Tessa whispered to her that she needed to go. She didn’t want to hear that. So she shook her head no.
“I have to go, Mommy.”
“But baby, I don’t want you to go.”
“Mommy, it’s okay now.”
“Tessa, please no.” Tessa’s fingertips touched her lips.
“Shh, Mommy. You will be all right. I need to go and be with Daddy now.”
“Tessa...” Those words did it for her, and she knew Tessa was right. She needed to let her go. It was time. At last, she understood what had held her back for so long. She’d hung onto Tessa not allowing her to rest in peace. Alexa tightly embraced her baby girl, one last time.
“I understand, T.”
Tessa gave her a huge grin and kissed her again, pulling back slowly until only their hands touched and then just their fingers.
“I love you, Mommy.”
“I love you, too, Tessa.” A fleeting touch of a little hand on her cheek and the softest tinkling of a bell and Tessa was gone. Alexa stayed in Angelo’s arms and she cried, but for once, it was a cleansing cry and not tears of sadness. Her baby was fine, which could only mean Terrance was fine. All this time she’d been keeping Tessa bound to the earth and to her. Angelo stroked his big strong hands over her back, and finally when the tears stopped, she looked up into his face and smiled.
“Angelo, I don’t know how you did it, but thank you.”
He shook his head. “I didn’t do anything that you truly couldn’t have done yourself. I just told you to listen and you did.”
“It’s like you know what I need and when I need it.”
He brought his hands up and stroked them across her wet cheeks, then cupped her chin. Alexa felt lost in his eyes, mesmerized by what she saw there. His eyes held hope, kindness, and friendship and if she were brave enough to describe the last thing she saw there she would, but not yet.
“It’s like I said before, I am here for you. Tell me what you need right now, this moment.”
“I need for you to take me out of here and to take me to bed. I need you.”
He smiled. “You have me.”
“Then prove it. Do what I asked.”
She got out of his lap and stood before him, waiting for him to make his move. He stood slowly and she giggled as he picked her up and moved through the open door of Tessa’s room. He headed down the short hallway to her room and pushed open the door with his foot. He strode in the direction of the bed, placing her right in front of it and stared into her eyes. His gaze alone made her weak in the knees and she grabbed onto his forearms to steady herself.
Angelo cupped her chin in his hand, this time to pull her face up to his so he could kiss her. His tongue slipped into her mouth, searching out hers, and they dueled like that for a few moments. She groaned as he bit her bottom lip, and then licked it. When his lips left
hers, she realized she was holding her breath.
“Angelo…” Even to her she sounded out of breath.
“Yes, dear Alexa?” She shook her head and didn’t say anything more. This was about feeling. He nodded and returned his attention to her lips. He made quick work of her clothing, letting everything drop on the floor. Not to be outdone, she placed her hands on his shirt and pulled it up, baring his chest, and then off of his head, tossing it to the floor. She moved in close to him, kissing his chest softly, and her hands moving to undo the button of his jeans as she tasted his flesh.
Everything about him thrilled her, and she constantly had wet panties when she thought of him. She fought the urge to just pull his pants down and to have him fuck her. No, she wanted something deeper than just that. They could fuck any day. Today, she needed him in the rawest and deepest form. She wanted to feel him at the most basic level with her heart and soul bared to him.
She kept her hands at his pants, not inching them down yet. Swirling her tongue around his nipple, she smiled as he groaned. It was amazing to her how responsive the male anatomy could be. Tugging at the nipple with her teeth, Alexa was encouraged by his hands that went in her hair and held her to him.
“Mmm, oh yes, that’s wonderful, Alexa.”
Bringing her head up, she switched attention to his other nipple but this time adding in suction from her mouth. His low growl sent pleasure spiking up her spine, and she couldn’t resist nipping him there. He grunted and pulled her head back, gently slanting his lips over hers with a soft groan.
He placed her hand at his pants then released her. She knew what he wanted just with that gesture.
Undoing them, she jerked them down his hips and freed him. Unable to stop herself, she glanced down and at his cock. God, it was beautiful. He was beautiful. She knelt before him, taking his cock in her hand and stroked him slowly.
“Alexa…aren’t I supposed to be taking you to bed?”
“Yes, but it’s my turn.”
The head of his cock had a pearly bead of pre-come and she couldn’t resist giving it a swipe of her tongue. She peered into his eyes as she licked the head of his cock again and then placed the tip in her mouth, slowly suckling.
He arched into her and gripped the back of her head. With short and shallow thrusts of his hips, he slid his cock all the way into her mouth and she moaned around it. She placed her hands on his thighs, feeling the power there as he fed her his cock. His taste hit her tongue, and she purred as a swirling hunger hit the pit of her stomach and went straight to her throbbing clit. Pulling back a bit on his cock, she licked around the head, swiping underneath with quick little flicks that produced a growl from him.
She was just getting started, and he slipped from her mouth. Alexa grumbled in protest, then he picked her up into his arms and settled on the bed with her in front of him, face to face. She gazed at him and leaned up to kiss him lightly, before she lay back against the pillows.
“I guess now you’re actually taking me to bed.” She winked at him and he chuckled.
“Yes, I guess now that’s exactly what I’m doing.”
He reached for one of the condoms they’d left out on the nightstand opened it, donned it, and put the wrapper on the same nightstand. Turning back to her, he smiled and positioned himself over her, nudging her legs open with his own. Taking his cock in hand, he set it at her entrance and thrust forward, seating himself into her fully.
Her breath caught and she placed her hands on his shoulders, wrapping her legs up high around his waist. She whimpered as he hit so deep within her she could swear he touched her cervix.
“Oh!”
The words she was going to say were cut off as she caught his rhythm and pleasure begin to grow. When her orgasm came, it was as swift as it was hard, and she was screaming his name out loudly as her body shook with its convulsions. Angelo soon followed with an orgasm of his own and before
long, they lay together on the bed in a satisfied heap of tangled nerves and sensations.
She couldn’t move, she felt so sated, and she made a small noise of protest when he removed himself from her and got up. Yet she still lay there. A few moments later, she opened her eyes
and followed him into the bathroom. Her eyes connected with his in the bathroom mirror and she leaned close to brush a kiss over his shoulder. Picking up a cloth, she washed up as well. The brush of a wet cool cloth stroked over her body. Still so sensitive, she bit her lip to keep herself from moaning.
“Let me help.”
Angelo took the cloth from her set it down then placed her on top of the counter. Alexa could not begin to describe how good it felt to be pampered again. In that instant, she knew she loved him and had quite easily from the beginning. He picked her up and carried her to the bed getting in with her he wrapped his arms around her. She wanted to tell him then, that she loved him. But her eyelids felt heavy and she drifted to sleep.
Chapter Six
Angelo woke with the sudden urge to go outside. Michael and Gabriel, they were summoning him. Glancing over at Alexa, he saw that she was fast asleep, curled around her pillow and Teddy. Slipping out of bed, he dressed quickly and went out the sliding door that led to the backyard.
Michael and Gabriel both stood in the snow waiting for him. He stopped and stood before them, reaching out to clasp both of their hands in greeting. It was strange looking at them from his almost human eyes as they stood in all their angelic glory. Their wings, however, were tucked carefully against their backs.
“I know that I owe the both of you a huge amount of gratitude.”
They grinned but didn’t say anything.
“If it weren’t for you both giving me a part of myself back, I wouldn’t have been able to help her with Tessa.”
“Yes, Tessa needed to be free to go home,” Michael said.
“Though no through any fault of her own, Alexa has been holding on to Tessa and keeping her earthbound. That not only hindered growth for Alexa, but it kept her child here,” Gabriel finished.
Angelo nodded and he asked the burning question that was on his mind.
“Are you here to make me go back?”
“No.” They both spoke
together, as if it had been scripted. “If we were here to take you back it would be done already. We are here for you to make a choice. Meaning you can go back with us, or you can stay here as a mortal. But know this: if she turns you away, you will still be earthbound and can’t return. Your choice would have been made. What do you choose, Angelo?”
Angelo glanced back at where Alexa
lay in bed then turned back to look at the other angels. He knew now the true reason he’d felt the urge to come to Alexa’s aid. Not only because he loved her but because Tessa needed to be guided home.
“I choose to stay.”
Michael and Gabriel both nodded, though it was Michael who spoke up. “You still wish to stay even if she chooses not to be with you?”
“Yes, that is my choice. Even though I now realize that I was brought here for more than I thought.”
Michael nodded “Yes, it wasn’t the only reason you were brought here. As of course you were led to believe. But we wanted it to happen naturally.”
“I understand. I do have to say that it was quite a
wakeup call. To come to an awareness that I am not a human who couldn’t remember anything, but an angel basically trapped in a human’s body. One minute I couldn’t remember anything but my name and then I finally discerned I was an angel. I recognized quite quickly that it was with your help.”
Gabriel chuckled and placed his finger at his lips and said, “Shh…”
“Your secret is safe with me,” Angelo said with a wink.
Michael looked over Angelo’s shoulder and then back to Angelo. Angelo
glanced back as well, and Alexa was indeed starting to move a bit more in the bed, seemingly searching for him. “Your Alexa stirs. We need to go. For the last time, we will ask, are you sure you don’t wish to go with us?”
“Even if I am not sure that she will want me, I wouldn’t leave here and not be able to say goodbye. Thank you, brothers, for all that you’ve done for me. It will never be forgotten.”
“We know, brother,” Gabriel said. “The one thing about this is, you will no longer be an angel, but you will remember that you were. You will also bear the mark.”
“The mark?” Angelo asked.
“Yes, your wings will be gone. But we will impart that memory on your body. The remnants of your wings will be tattooed there.”
Both angels moved forward and hugged Angelo in turn. When they let him go he felt a searing pain run through his body, almost
bringing him to his knees. A flash of white light hit him between his shoulder blades, knocking him to his knees before he blanked out.
***
Alexa didn’t know what woke her up. She reached for Angelo but he wasn’t in bed with her anymore. The room was lit by a small night light. She got out of the bed and picked up her robe, which had been lying over the chair next to the bed and then slipped on her slippers. She was about to leave the room and go down the hall when something caught her attention out on the patio. Flipping on the light switch for the backyard, she gasped. There was Angelo, face down in the snow. Again.
“Not again!”
Quickly, she made her way out to him, kneeling beside him. She was about to touch his back and frowned. There, on his back, was what looked like a freshly made tattoo of angel’s wings. His shirt lay torn on the ground and had a burned look to it. Hell, how would she have missed that? She wouldn’t have. He groaned and rolled to his back, opening his beautiful gray eyes and looking at her.