Desired By The Archangel: Book Two (Angel Paranormal Romance) (Braving Darkness 8) by Scarlett Grove Read Free Book Online Page A

Michael's hand. "Hurry," he said, running down the hallway. The air seemed to compress and whoosh up behind her. Dust clogged the air and she began to choke. Crashing sounded as the mountain was shot again in a devastating boom.
    There was no light to guide the way as Magda clung to Michael's hand. This was her fault, but in her new awareness, she could no longer blame herself. All things had their place in the scheme of life and death. All events were perfectly orchestrated occurrences in the stream of life. Even Michael being removed from the Council was perfect. It served a purpose. She could see that now.
    Finally, they reached the deepest chamber in the mountain. The meditation room. Everyone had converged there. A dim blue light still glowed from the walls, illuminating the frightened faces of the people of New San Diego. Another blast reverberated through the mountain and screams echoed in the room.
    "We're trapped like rats!" someone shouted.
    "Everyone, please," Magda said, stepping to the center of the room. "Everything is fine. Nothing can harm us here. Now is the time, my friends, to push through to our final goal. Now is the time for us to show the Anu and The Council of the Seventh House what we are made of. My friends, let us meditate together. I know you are afraid, but this is the perfect time. We are right on schedule with the other groups. Let this be the day we stand up and say “no more”. Let this be our moment!"
    Whimpers and whispers of approval came from the crowd. Someone booed with anger, but they were shushed. The group had grown. They were learning. They might be afraid, but something inside them knew that what Magda said was true.
    "Let us begin," she said. Cassie and Circe joined her at the center of the room and they touched the computer that helped them ascend as they all closed their eyes together. Magda was instantly connected to Michael and felt herself become one with the entire group. The power of it was beyond anything she'd felt with them before.
     
     
     

Chapter Thirteen
    There was a sudden massive shift and Magda could feel the entire group moving higher all at once. Inside her mind, Michael called to her. In the void before worlds were created, Michael came to her in his full glory, wings expanded, dressed in white.
    “Come look,” he said to her, moving his hand through the air. She took his hand and followed him through the void until it began to take shape. She could feel the minds of everyone in the room, propelling her own consciousness to new heights.
    Shapes began to form before her, and she hovered with Michael in the blackness of space. Orbiting the planet below—her planet, Earth—she could see the massive ships of the Anu.
    “You can reach them this way,” he told her. She didn’t understand what he meant. “Look more closely,” he said.
    Her body propelled forward in the blink of an eye, and she was beside the enormous mothership, but Michael was nowhere to be seen. She reached out to him. He was always near.
    “Go inside. Do not be afraid,” she heard him whisper.
    “Can they see me in this form?” she asked.
    “Yes. But you are stronger than they are.” She had a momentary jolt of fear. She was definitely not as strong as the Anu. “But you are,” Michael whispered inside her mind. “You are love and they are fear. Love is always stronger, my darling.”
    She heaved a sigh and let her body slip through the walls of the ship. Inside, she found herself in some sort of control room. No Anu anywhere in sight. “This ship exists in both the third and fourth dimension,” Michael told her. 
    “What does that mean?” she asked through their mental link.
    “It means that if it is destroyed in one place, it is destroyed in the other. Touch the control panel,” he said.
    She reached out her hand, her astral form glimmering in pinks and blues. As she placed her hand on the black panel covered in glowing yellow lights, she had a sudden burst of