Cassius gasped and then doubled over, the entire room dropped forty degrees. I sucked in a freezing breath as Cassius gripped me by the shoulders.
“The hell?” Ethan jumped to his feet while Cassius held me in his grasp like he was minutes away from slitting my throat. “Cassius? What are you doing? It’s Timber.”
“The sun.” Cassius’s voice shook the house. “Who houses the sun?” And then his eyes turned black, hard as stone as he whispered. “Ra.”
And just like that a memory washed over me, it was brief, it was warm, everything I touched turned to light, my armor was red and gold, I marched in front of an army all arrogance and smiles.
“For your arrogance, I curse you!” Ramesses yelled. I only laughed and shook my head, Pharaohs, idiots all of them! A human couldn’t curse me!
“I would like to see you try!” I let out a deafening roar as my brothers and sisters raised their swords. “This earth is ours!”
So much blood.
So much death.
I lost the light.
I reached for it—but the minute I stepped away from His face, the gift was gone.
As was the warmth in my chest.
Only emptiness.
A punishment for our sins.
For following Those who Watched the humans from the mountain, for choosing humanity first, the Creator second. For daring to believe we should have more than the idiot humans ruining the very planet we’d been ruling for centuries!
I jerked away from Cassius—or at least tried to.
And when he didn’t budge, I let out a roar and slammed my hand into his chest.
He went flying backward against the wall, knocking over a few chairs and creating a giant crack that went all the way to the ceiling.
“What the hell was that?” Ethan was at Cassius’s side in a second.
Cassius’s eyes returned to blue, and they didn’t leave mine as he stood, dusted himself off, and asked what was currently pulsing in my heart, in my head. “What sort of being can shove an angel and live to tell about it?”
I swallowed the dryness in my throat and hung my head. “I wish I knew.”
Mason looked at me through narrowed eyes.
Tarek seemed unfazed.
And the noise was enough for Alex to be stomping back into the house ready to ki
ck ass with everyone else.
I had always been their enemy.
And then their friend.
Now I wasn’t sure what they would call me.
Because I’d just been able to shove away our King.
And everyone knew, demons couldn’t touch an angel in any sort of violent way without getting the shit beat out of them.
Demons seduced.