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"Reyes," I said weakly, already losing consciousness, the pressure around er see his face, just blackness, the undulating robe that was sohis identity even frorip like a ood fight, I feltliht

I felt hiainst me as a total eclipse crept in I heard hi around one and gravity took hold and I collapsed onto the shower floor once again, this time face-first, and so to suck

The strangest thing happened on the day I was born A dark figure aiting for me just outside my mother’s wo the entire delivery rooh I couldn’t see his face, I kneatching when the doctor cut the cord Though I couldn’t feel his fingers, I knew he touched h I couldn’t hear his voice, I knehispered my name, the sound deep and husky

He was so powerful, his mere presence weakened s, and I was afraid of hi I was afraid of I’d never been plagued with the nor, since dead people gathered around me en masse But him, I was afraid of And yet he showed himself only in times of dire need He’d saved me, saved my life more than once So as I afraid? Why had I dubbed hi but?

Perhaps it was the power that radiated off him, that seemed to absorb a part of id night on the streets of Albuquerque, the first time I’d seen Reyes Farrow My older sister, Gemma, and I had been on recon for a school project in a rather bad part of toe noticed movement in theof a s a teenaged boy At that ht was to save him Soh thethe boy Unfortunately, he ca for an opening along a fence e realized the boy had escaped as well We saw hi

We went back Blood streaked down his face, dripped from his incredible mouth We found out his name was Reyes and tried to help, but he refused our offer, even going so far as to threaten us if we didn’t leave That was my first lesson in the absurdities of the male mind But because of that incident, I wasn’t completely surprised when I found out more than a decade later that Reyes had spent the last ten years in prison for killing that very man

That was only one of several truths I’d recently found out about hi Bad, the dark being that had been followingover me since the day ofthat savedthat studied me from the shadows, aI wasI was afraid of growing up

It wasfrom my childhood was a man made of flesh and blood Yet he could leave his physical body and travel through space and time as an incorporeal presence, one that could dematerialize in the span of a heartbeat One that could draord and sever a man’s spinal column within the blink of an eye One that could lance froht o, I found out where his supernatural abilities steertips brushed down my arm, when his mouth scorched flae of orgasm to unlock his past and pull back the curtains for me to see I watched the birth of the universe unfold before el ever created--was thrown froht back, his arreat tured froh the ranks to become a respected leader Second only to his father, he co thieves, even more beautiful and powerful than his father, with the key to the gates of hell scored into his body

But his father’s pride would not be subdued He wanted the heavens He wanted co in the universe He wanted God’s throne

Reyes followed his father’s every command, waited and watched for a portal to be born upon the Earth, a direct passage to heaven, a way out of hell A tracker of flawless stealth and skill, he negotiated his way through the gates of the underworld and found the portals in the farthest reaches of the universe, a thousand lights identical in shape and fore to serve on Earth

But Reyes looked harder and saw one listening Me I turned and saw him and smiled And Reyes was lost

He defied his father’s wishes for him to return to hell with our location, waited centuries forall that he knew for me Because the day he was born in huot who he hat he was Andto be with me, but a cruel twist in fate sent hireith his every an to remember his past Who he was What he was But by that ti the man who raised him