Soul Searcher Book 1

I run both my hands through my hair. I’m breathing so hard I’m seething. I can’t believe Samael went and told her like that. How dare he! I send him a text telling him to meet me out by the dunes, that way the humans won’t see the fight I have no doubt will ensue. I pace along the sand as I wait for him to appear.

He is so lucky he didn’t make me wait long for him to show his face. “Rim, you beckoned? What do you need that couldn’t have been done via text message or phone call, hmm?” Samael is mocking me. I can see the laughter in his eyes as he looks at me.

Growling I stalk towards him, rage pouring off of me in waves. “Why in the Fuck! Cassie called me so upset. She ended up crying in my arms you asshole! There wasn’t any reason for you to go and speak with her. If you would have talked with me first, I could have told you I found another way to achieve your mortality. You fucking dick!” I swing in a blind rage, my right fist connecting with his jaw in an uppercut. And even though I have knocked his head back causing him to see the sky, he is able to connect his left fist with my right side and I can feel my ribs take the brunt of the impact. “Oomph!” I wheeze from lack of air. I threw another punch, my fist landing right between his eyes and the bridge of his nose.

“I’m not waiting for any alternative solutions unless this is something that can happen immediately.” Samael yells before his knee collides with my stomach. The impact lifts me a foot off the ground but as soon as my feet hit the sand I throw my shoulder into his abdomen, my arms flying around his waist as if I were a linebacker, knocking him to the ground. I scream an ‘argh’ as the emotions swirling inside me trigger my powers, Sam’s powers are waking too. As my emotions consume me, I suddenly feel Cassie’s essence. Looking behind me I am surprised to see that she has managed to find us.

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Cassie watched the swirling pitch-black mist that encircled Samael and the golden rays of light that emanated from Rim clash and crackle against one another, causing electrical surges of lightning to streak around them as their fists each made contact with body parts. Rim’s right hand balled tight, swung out and upward, connecting with Samael’s jawbone, knocking his head to the side. Cassie could hear oomph’s and grunts come from them both because as Rim’s fist impacted with Samael’s jaw; Samael’s right fist caught Rim in the gut, lifting him off the ground with the force of Samael’s swing.

Gritting her teeth, Cassie decided then and there to willingly give Samael her soul. She didn’t like to watch people fight, especially to fight over her. She didn’t want to lose Rim, nor did she want to say goodbye to him but if giving her soul to Samael kept the two from fighting and kept Samael from taking Rim’s immortal soul (which would mean no afterlife and no rebirth for him), then so be it!

Cassie sucked in a breath as she witnessed the assault, wincing as though she were experiencing Rims pain herself! “STOP!” She shouted the word with such force that both Rim and Samael stopped mid-swing as if frozen by the fierceness held in her voice and they turned their attention toward her. “Please stop,” she added with a sob.

“Rim, stop fighting him. I am going to willingly give my soul to Samael. Please don’t try to talk me out of doing this,” she asked me pleadingly, silently begging me to not try and change her mind. Being a human, she doesn’t know the effect she will have on me if she does this. I hadn’t been able to talk in depth with her about the ‘ifs’ of a supernatural being ever losing their soulmate. So even though she’s willingly giving her soul to protect me, if she leaves me, there is no reason for me to continue living as it will be a half-life and I don’t want that.

I have never been more alive than when I’m with her and her doing this will leave me in a state of emptiness and what’s the point of that... but I nod. Walking up to her, keeping her gaze locked with mine, I place my hands on either side of her face and look deep into her eyes before saying, “you don’t have to do this. My life is not worth you giving yours for. I will not argue with you about your decision though. Just know you are my forever and always.” After these words fall from my mouth, I bring her lips to mine and kiss her with every ounce of my being, hoping that I can convey to her with my kiss all the words that seem to have escaped my mind.

Cassie’s face has become damp with the tears that have slipped down her cheeks. I take my thumbs and try to swipe them away as I step back to look at her beautiful face once more. She whispers the words I was trying to say with my kiss, “I love you,” and I feel as if my heart has been hit with a hammer causing it to shatter into tiny pieces like glass and I place my hand over my chest, desperately trying to grasp at the shards as they fall to the ground. I have never felt pain like this before and as I try to come to terms with the agony that has engulfed me, Samael shoves me aside. Helplessly I watch as he places his hands where mine had been just seconds ago.

Placing his forehead against hers, Samael stares hard into her eyes, “the window to her soul,” to quote William Shakespeare. I stand frozen as I watch him begin to extract her entity. He moves his left hand from her face to the center of her back, right in between her shoulder blades. Tilting her back just enough to cause Cassie’s head to fall backwards, exposing her neck as all her beautiful hair falls away from her shoulders. Samael then places his right hand upon her chest, just below her collar bones, over her heart. Closing his eyes, I hear Samael begin to mutter what I can only assume is a spell that his witch told him he would have to say for everything to come to fruition.

I feel the space around Cassie and Samael begin to electrify and then I watch as light surrounds Cassie, wait, no! Not surrounding her but coming from her. Her essence, she is glowing. I glance at Samael just then as my entire focus had been immersed in watching Cassie. He turns his eyes towards me at the same moment as we simultaneously realize something isn’t right. Her soul should be going dim, growing weaker, not growing brighter! Samael releases his hold on her as the light that comes from within her continues to illuminate her body and grows exponentially brighter. Samael turns his head and taking his hands he places them in front of his already closed eyes, like a shield.

I’m held captivated by the insanely bright white light that is Cassie. I’m only able to stare at her for a minute longer than Samael had before copying his movements. Cassie shrieks out in agony just before dropping upon the sand on her hands and knees. Breathing hard she pushes herself to where she is somewhat sitting on her knees. The light that was shining from her is slowly receding and I am finally able to turn my eyes her way. However, before I am able to move from where I stand, her body goes rigid, her arms fly out from her sides, suspending themselves limply in the air, her head flings back at an unnatural angle causing her face to be skyward and the light that had receded doubles in intensity and breaks free, forcing its way out of her mouth and eyes straight into the heavens. My mouth falls open in stunned silence as I continue to watch the scene before me unravel. A burst of light tears from her shoulder blades briefly before being replaced by the most beautiful set of iridescent angel wings!

I have never seen such beauty. Cassie’s wings flutter slightly as though they are ruffled by wind. At some point during the chaos that had ensued between Samael and I and then Cassie arriving the mix of things, the sun had gone down replaced by the moon. The light of the full moon bathes her, encircling her in its silver beams, causing her massive wings to shimmer; dare I say sparkle even? As I continue to stare at her in awe, I hear Cassie begin speaking in a shaky voice; “I remember!” Quickly I make my way over to her and fall to my knees in front of her so that we can stare into each other’s eyes.

“What did you say?” I asked her in confusion.

Cassie smiles weakly, “I am no longer suffering from amnesia. My memories have returned like a flood gate opening up. I remember who I am...”

Just then Samael screams “NOOO!” and disappears. My heart aches for him for some strange reason but to know he isn’t able to have Cassie’s soul has my entire body vibrating in jubilation.

I had turned my head to look at Sam when he shouted but my eyes have since reconnected with Cassie’s. I smile at her and hear her ask quietly, “can you take me home Rim? I’m so tired.”

“Yes, but first I need you to retract your wings. Are you able to do that?” I see her wince slightly and worry filters across my face, into my eyes for the pain she is experiencing but then I remind myself, it’s been two years since last she used those specific muscles so, yeah it would cause her some discomfort, some pain. Once her wings are no longer visible, I scoop her up, cradling her to my chest and then begin the small trek back to her apartment.