Ominous Love (19 page)

My heart sinks, then I suddenly remember that
Seal has no wings. Gee whiz. Surely God wouldn’t have burned them off because
he was saving me from Devlin, would he? My eyes wide, I stare at him. “Seal, you’re
wings have gone. Were you kissing me?”

He gulps. “Um, well, I couldn’t help it. When
I took over Devlin’s body, I took over everything he was doing. He already had
his tongue in your mouth and … well …um …”

Holding my cheeks, I gasp. “Far out, Seal.
You made love to me, didn’t you?”

He pulls me into an embrace. “I had no
choice, honey. It was him or me.”

I stroke his hair. “Oh, Seal, I’m so glad you
did.”

Leaning closer, he kisses me tenderly on the
mouth. “I love you so much, Eloise. I couldn’t stand what he was doing to you.
I wanted to kill him. Are you okay,
baby
?”

“I’m fine,” I lie. “Don’t worry about me. You’re
the one that’s hurt.”

“Don’t lie to me, Eloise. You need to go to
the hospital.”

My eyes go wide. “No, Seal. Imagine what
would happen if I did. I couldn’t stand all, the questions. They’d think you harmed
me and they’d take tests. I’m okay. I just want to go home.”

“Okay, but where are your clothes?”

I sigh. “On the sand somewhere I guess.”

He rubs my cold arms. “Hopefully, I’ll make a
better husband than a guardian angel.”

A husband?
My jaw drops and a thrill runs through
me. I’ve surely died and gone to heaven. As I wrap my arms around his neck, I whisper
in his ear. “I’ll love you forever, Sea ....”

He presses his fingers to my lips.
“Nathaniel.”

My heart racing, I hold his face and gaze
into his eyes. “I will love you for ever and ever, Nathaniel.”

Closing his eyes, he holds me tight. “Oh,
Eloise, I’ve yearned for you to say those words.”

I melt into his bare chest. “And I yearned
for you in my dreams, Mystery Boy.”

He kisses my eyes, my ears, and my cheeks. “Oh,
baby, please say you’ll marry me?”

I hug him tight. “Oh, Nathaniel, I’d love to
marry you.”

He smiles. “I can’t wait, Eloise, but the
wedding will have to wait until you’ve finished school.”

“School?”

“Yes, honey, you’ll have to leave that job
and go back to school. I’ll be the one to go to work.”

I shrug. “It’s a deal.

“Okay, Miss Beautiful, I think we better get
dressed.”

A familiar voice shouts out, “You bloody
pervert!”

We turn around.

Crap! It’s Tom.

“I knew you were banging her,” he sneers at
Nathaniel.

I scrunch myself into a ball to hide my
nakedness. “Tom, go away,” I yell. “And stop perving on us.”

He clenches his fists and glowers at
Nathaniel. “You’ll keep, you bloody poser.”

“Shut up and pass Eloise her clothes,” he
says.

“Yes, Tom, can you?” I ask.
“My purse, too.”

Shaking his head, he gathers my things from
the sand dunes and chucks them at me,
then
he shoves
Devlin’s shorts over Nathaniel’s head.
“Bloody kissing
cousins, my ass.”
Mumbling to himself, he stomps back up the beach.

As Nathaniel puts the shorts on, I quickly
get dressed,
then
I put my shoulder bag over my head
and grab his hand. “Come on. Let’s go home.”

He wraps his arm around my waist. “Yes, and
we’ve got a whole week to sort things out before your parents get back.”

I hug him tight. “Does this mean you’re
staying on earth with me forever?”

He kisses my cheek. “That’s right.”

“You’re not going back to heaven?”

He shakes his head. “Nope, not until I die.”

I smile. “That’s not for a long time.”

“Yes, a whole life time.”

“Say you love me again?”

He kisses my lips. “I love you, Eloise.”

“I love you, too, Seal.”

He raises a brow. “It’s Nathaniel.”

I pout. “You’re Seal?”

“Nathaniel.”

I snuggle into his neck. “Okay, Nathaniel. I
love you.”

As he rocks me in his arms, I gaze up at the
sky and pray to God that if I am pregnant, to let it be Nathaniel’s baby, not
Devlin’s. Then I notice Devlin’s ring is still on my finger.
Holy
Crap.
I yank it off and throw it in the sand. My stomach clenches and I
wonder what’s become of that monster.

“Are you feeling okay, Eloise? You’re
trembling.”

I take a deep breath. “I’m just cold.”

He puts me down on the sand, gets to his
feet,
then
lifts me back into his strong arms. “Come
on, babe. You’ve had a terrible ordeal. I’ll take you home.”

As he carries me along the beach track past
the church, Johnny
Ruffo’s
hit song:
‘Take It Home’
, blasts from the hall
speakers.

To be continued in book two of the ‘Ominous Series’:
Ominous Seed
………….

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