How did she deserve it? How did anyone?
“I think,” he said quietly against the top of her head, “that there is a price. And I think we paid it already.”
She sighed against his shoulder, where her face was tucked into the warmth and strength of his spare frame. “Angels are expensive,” she agreed, and she fitted her hands over the wings on his back, imagining she could feel the texture of feathers through his shirt. All those feathers, light, and soft, and hope-scented, lifting her to heaven.
THE END
~*~
The Lean Dogs –
And their old ladies!
- will return in Dartmoor Book III
The Skeleton King
Summer 2015
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The Skeleton King (Summer 2015)