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feel, was Gabrielle’s, and no one knew it but her. Not even Amaziah—especially not Amaziah. He would be furious with her if he knew. She would keep the vision of him to herself as long as she could, and one day, he would appear in front of her. She would wait for that day. And, at least for now, he was hers and only hers.
    My little secret.
    All too soon, the vision ended, and so did the peace it loaned her for that moment. Peace she so desperately needed. Gabrielle took another deep breath, this one involuntary. She huffed out a sharp sigh.
    Lightning weaved its white coils across the twilit sky once again, followed instantly by a crack of thunder so earsplitting it made the ground tremble.
    “Is that all you’ve got?” Gabrielle asked the storm defiantly, feeling the desire for a fight. She wished it really was a foe coming upon her instead of rain and wind.
    As she turned and moved away from the horizon that had just swallowed the sun and its light completely and began walking toward her new life—a life that would be surrounded by the oppressive shadows of Darkness—she felt a foreboding stirring deep in her core. It accompanied a Knowing she prayed would not come to be.
    There was a storm … one that could bring her end, and it loomed on a horizon invisible to the humans it so greatly affected. But Gabrielle could see it. It was coming fast and true. The rain it spilled would be the blood and tears of angels, the lightning from Divine weapons striking, the thunder from the screams of pain born from Yahuwah’s angels and the Fallen.
    Gabrielle shivered. As her body trembled, she wanted to believe the chill was from the absence of the warm rays her human flesh now missed, but she knew it was from the heaviness that accompanied the Fallen and those who lived in Shadow—from Darkness caused by far more than an absent sun.

Chapter Four

    Gabrielle ~ First Impressions
    Time moved so slowly on Earth, at least compared to what Gabrielle was accustomed to. She still hadn’t adjusted to the difference. It made her uncomfortable in a way, feeling like she was missing something important back in Heaven. Or that whatever—whoever—was causing the feeling of dread that had settled on her since arriving on Earth two months ago had way too much time to put their dark plans in motion. Regardless, she thought it was possible, even if she spent years constantly living as a human, she’d never feel comfortable with the difference in how time flowed.
    She’d been feeling like something or someone was coming. Looking at her reflection in her car’s visor mirror, she saw her mouth and brows move in unison as she frowned. Whichever it was, it wasn’t good.
    “Not good at all,” she said to herself.
    Even the dreams she now had because of her human form were unpleasant, though she only woke with fuzzy memories of them. At times, she would wake to her screams echoing off the walls of her bedroom, her eyes frantically searching her surroundings, panting and sweating like she’d been running a race.
    It was fitting, though. She was in a race against the clock to find out what she needed to in the short amount of time she’d been given. No matter how slow she felt time in her human body was going, she knew it would be coming to end faster than she wanted.
    “Let it go, Gabrielle. There’s nothing you can do about your damn feelings that something’s coming,” she scolded her image in the mirror. She glared back at herself, as if the stare was going to drive the statement home and make her actually heed the words.In a frustrated swipe of her hand, she flipped the visor up, sending it hard against the roof of the car. She momentarily let the frustration consume her.
    She was going to have to calm down before getting out of the car. Earning the reputation as an angry, unapproachable teen on the first day of what was supposed to be her senior year was not what she wanted. Her job wasn’t helping to keep that intense side of