Earthbound Angels Part 1: The Heartthrob Fallen Celestial Stories Collection Read Online Free PDF

the grim reality she had been faced with just that day.
However, the impressions were too real, too vivid and complete, to
be her invention. It had really happened, however impossible the
whole thing seemed.
    She finally got up around four AM; feeling
light-headed but strangely alert, and made some coffee.
    She had collected some boxes earlier that
evening to help with the packing, and with the prospect that had
suddenly opened up before her, the task was no longer a burden. Her
furniture would go into storage now that she would be able to
afford it. The only things she was taking with her were her clothes
and personal items. Erick told her he would send people to pick up
her things and deliver them to the storage facility of her
choice.
    He was also having a rental car delivered to her
at his expense because he knew she would need one living so far
outside of the city. She and Adam had moved into the city partly
because they couldn't actually afford a car of their own. In the
city, they had plenty of access to public transportation when they
needed it. Otherwise, they simply walked to most of the places they
frequented.
    Hollianne couldn't believe her tremendous luck
in landing this job. It was just what she needed right now and it
would certainly get her back on her feet financially. And Erick was
phenomenally wonderful!
    He wasn't hard on the eyes, either.
    She felt her bones melting, all the tension and
excitement of last night easing, as she envisioned him once again,
closing her eyes. His name fits, she thought as she involuntarily hugged the pile of clothes
she was about to transfer to an open suitcase.
    Erick Angell really did fit her idea of an angel
-- not that she had ever imagined one specifically, but she
suddenly knew that Erick was what an angel should be like.
    She suddenly felt a little guilty about her
reaction to him.
    Adam had been her life and now here she was,
looking at another man like he was a feast.
    But this had never happened to her.
    Not even with Adam. She was a bookish sort and
it took a while before she had even noticed him. Adam hadn't
helped; he wasn't the assertive sort and would probably never even
have plucked up the courage to speak to her had she not made the
first move, more out of impatience than desire. Their attraction
had been gradual -- thinking of themselves first as friends for
weeks that turned into months, with meeting after meeting and one
heartfelt conversation after another. But these conversations were
never about what either of them felt, until late one evening as
they were about to part. A sudden downpour had driven them to the
shelter of a shop doorway. Adam had reached out to brush the rain
drops from her hair without even thinking of anything more. Then,
suddenly she was in his arms and her lips were pressed to his. But
it had been another month before they slept together for the first
time. He was so infuriatingly slow to take the hint. It had been
magic while it lasted, but there was nothing quick about it, or
about her other relationships for that matter, which as a
consequence had been few in number. Since Adam she had not even
looked at a man that way again.
    However, when she first set her eyes on Erick,
she had been completely mesmerized. Blushing furiously even as she
thought it, seeing Erick was like seeing a real man for the first
time in her life.
    Hollianne shook her head to clear it, which
turned out to be a mistake, as it only made her feel light-headed
again, exacerbating the sense of dreamlike unreality.
    It surely wasn't as bad as that. It was just a
momentary crush, enhanced on by the plush surroundings and amazing
food. She would get used to his attractiveness when she started
staying with him, would start to notice those annoying quirks and
faults that always started to emerge from behind the facade that
men presented to women in order to impress them.
    She just had to try to not think about him all
the time. It was imperative that she be able to