{"id":440,"date":"2011-06-21T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/blog\/?p=440"},"modified":"2011-06-21T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T16:00:00","slug":"teaseday-her-dark-angel-angel-romance-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/21\/teaseday-her-dark-angel-angel-romance-book-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaseday &#8211; Her Dark Angel &#8211; Angel Romance Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m posting a <b>Teaseday <\/b>excerpt for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Dark%20Angel\"><b>Her Dark Angel<\/b><\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Dark%20Angel\"><b>Her Dark Angel<\/b><\/a> is the first book in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebookseries.php?series=Her%20Angel\"><i>Her Angel<\/i><\/a> romance series, and is a dark, sensual novella full of passion. You can get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Dark%20Angel\"><b>Her Dark Angel<\/b><\/a> in both e-book and paperback (as part of an anthology with the other two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebookseries.php?series=Her%20Angel\"><i>Her Angel<\/i><\/a> series novellas)<\/p>\n<p>On to the tease&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Dark%20Angel\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/images\/uploads\/picDetailherdarkangel.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Dark%20Angel\"><b>Her Dark Angel<\/b><\/a><br \/><b>Felicity Heaton<\/b><br \/>An angel without a mission, Apollyon lives trapped in Hell guarding  the bottomless pit. Surrounded by endless darkness, he longs to fly  free on Earth once more but his master hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t called him in centuries.  When the call finally comes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to serve a new master, a beautiful  woman he has often watched over, a woman who has always captivated him.<\/p>\n<p>Serenity is shocked when a gorgeous black-winged angel shows up in her  city of Paris claiming that she called him when she was only casting a  simple vengeance spell. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no other than the angel of death! When  Apollyon offers to obey her and help her have revenge on her cheating  ex-boyfriend, she can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t resist the temptation, but can she resist him?  Can an angel as dark as Apollyon ever fall for a mortal woman like her?<\/p>\n<p>Dark, passionate and erotic, Her Dark Angel is a tale of intense desire  and deepest forbidden love guaranteed to get your heart racing.<\/p>\n<p>ALL OF THE STORIES IN THE HER ANGEL SERIES STAND ALONE, JOINED BY  CHARACTER AND WORLD ONLY, AND DO NOT NEED TO BE READ IN ORDER.<\/p>\n<p>ebook price: $2.99<br \/>paperback price: $9.99<br \/>genre: paranormal angel romance<br \/>length: 30000 words<br \/>rating: sultry<br \/>released: August 2010<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebookseries.php?series=Her%20Angel\">Book 1 in the Her Angel series<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Available in e-book from:<\/b><br \/><b>Author&#8217;s website:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Dark%20Angel\">http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Dark%20Angel<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle Germany:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle UK:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/<\/a><br \/><b>Barnes and Noble:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Her-Dark-Angel\/Felicity-Heaton\/e\/2940011095184\/\">http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Her-Dark-Angel\/Felicity-Heaton\/e\/2940011095184\/<\/a><br \/><b>Kobo Books:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/ebook\/Her-Dark-Angel-Her-Angel\/mix-IpUY_pcZyka--k8L1kLPkQ\/page1.html\">http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/ebook\/Her-Dark-Angel-Her-Angel\/mix-IpUY_pcZyka&#8211;k8L1kLPkQ\/page1.html<\/a><br \/><b>Sony Reader Store:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/ebookstore.sony.com\/ebook\/felicity-heaton\/her-dark-angel-her-angel-romance-series\/_\/R-400000000000000277045\">http:\/\/ebookstore.sony.com\/ebook\/felicity-heaton\/her-dark-angel-her-angel-romance-series\/_\/R-400000000000000277045<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Available in paperback from:<\/b><br \/><b>Amazon.co.uk:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1456489836\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1456489836\/<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon.com:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1456489836\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1456489836\/<\/a><br \/><b>Barnes and Noble:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Her-Angel\/Felicity-Heaton\/e\/9781456489830\/\">http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Her-Angel\/Felicity-Heaton\/e\/9781456489830\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #c27ba0; font-family: Georgia,\"Times New Roman\",serif; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>EXCERPT<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The images in the bright pool flickered past Apollyon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes at  lightning speed but he could see them all, could bring each into focus  and pause there a moment to understand what was happening in the scene.  He had watched over the mortals since eternity began, had watched the  world change and forget his kind.<\/p>\n<p>No one believed in angels anymore.<\/p>\n<p>And his master had not called him forth from the bottomless pit in Hell in many long centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Apollyon waited for the call to come, faithful and patient,  committed to his duty even as others around him chose to live by their  own commands. Many of his fellow warriors had softened and fallen for  mortal women, their devotion wavering and their commitment altering to  their love. He would do no such thing. He had no interest in mortals.<\/p>\n<p>His dark blue gaze darted around the silvery pool, following the  history it was recording, stopping a moment on images that interested  him. Wars. Death. Bloodshed. It was something that never changed. One  day, his master would call him and Earth would know the true meaning of  destruction.<\/p>\n<p>The pool cast pale light on him as he crouched near it with his elbows  resting on his knees, his hands dangling in front of him. The intricate  gold metalwork on the black greaves protecting his shins and the  vambraces around his forearms caught the light and shone.<\/p>\n<p>With a sigh, Apollyon unfurled his mighty black feathered wings and  stood. He stretched, causing the chest plate of his armour to rise as he  lifted his arms, and then stared up at the endless black above him. The  fires of Hell burned at his back. Their smoke filled the cavern, making  him long to go to Earth. It had been eternity since he had left the pit  and spread his wings, breathing the refreshing air and feeling it beat  against him. He ached to soar above the cities again, unseen and  unknown, and to speak with the angels that walked on Earth and watched  over the mortals.<\/p>\n<p>He longed to be free of the choking fires of Hell.<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon was about to turn away and go to the edge of the pit when his  blue gaze caught on something in the pool. He frowned and crouched  again. The long strands of his black hair fell forwards as he leaned  over the pool and stared at the image he had stopped before him.<\/p>\n<p>A lone female.<\/p>\n<p>He often saw her. She liked to walk in the park alone these days and  her expression was sometimes troubled, as though she bore a heavy weight  on her heart. What was she thinking when she looked like that? The park  wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the only place that he had noticed her. He had seen her  indirectly too, picking her out of a crowd or seeing her passing through  an image that had interested him, and each time his gaze had followed  her until she had disappeared from view.<\/p>\n<p>She stood staring up at the Eiffel Tower, her back to him and the  gentle breeze catching her short red dress and tousling her long fair  hair. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to see her face to know that it was her. No other  mortal captivated him as she could.<\/p>\n<p>Roses framed the view, obscuring much of her legs. He cocked his head  to one side and ran his gaze over what he could see. He had never seen  her dressed like this. She had always worn layers of clothing in the  past, her legs covered and a thick black coat encasing her slender  frame. The seasons had passed so quickly and he hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t noticed that it  was almost summer on Earth. The image changed, panning up the height of  the Eiffel Tower and he wanted it to go back to her until he saw the  stretching blue sky above the top of the tower.<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon reached out to the pool, desperate to touch that sky and feel the sun beating down on his wings as he flew.<\/p>\n<p>The image drifted away, replaced with a succession of others that he  had no interest in. It was summer. He stood and imagined flying in that  blue sky and how exhilarating it would be. He imagined the whole of  Paris stretched out below him. He had never been there but he knew it  well from the images he had seen. What would it be like to see such a  city?<\/p>\n<p>To see such a female in the flesh?<\/p>\n<p>He shook that thought away and reminded himself that he had no interest in mortal women.<\/p>\n<p>If he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, why did his heart stop whenever he saw her?<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon looked back into the pool and then turned away from it. His  duty was to his master. He had to remain here, guardian of the  bottomless pit, suffering the acrid fires of Hell, until his master  called him.<\/p>\n<p>He laughed.<\/p>\n<p>No one was going to call him. He was going to spend the rest of eternity trapped in his own personal Hell.<\/p>\n<p>A dark curse rolled off his tongue and a noise like thunder rumbled in the distance.<\/p>\n<p>A familiar feeling built inside him, a sense that someone was speaking  his name. He listened, trying to hear the voice of his master, knowing  he would be the one who called to him. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t clear.<\/p>\n<p>He felt the call but couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t discern where it was coming from.<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon grabbed his sword, buckled the sheath to his waist, and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t  wait for the call to come again. This was his chance to escape Hell and  he would take it. His master was calling him from somewhere. He had a  mission again at last.<\/p>\n<p>He spread his wings and with a single strong beat lifted into the air.  The wind from them blew the dark smoke back and they raised him higher  and higher, until he reached the ceiling of his prison and stretched a  hand up to it. The black rock parted before him and he turned and flew  upwards, faster now that he could see a crack of blue sky above him.  Hundreds of feet of rock passed him at a blurry speed and he finally  broke free into the fresh air. He shot upwards, his black wings beating  furiously against the warm air, and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop until he reached the  clouds.<\/p>\n<p><a name='more'><\/a><br \/>Apollyon hovered there, casting his dark blue eyes over the world at  his feet, the chill wind blowing through his long black hair. It was as  beautiful as he remembered, more so in fact. The cities the mortals had  built fascinated him. He swooped lower, searching for his mission and  listening for his master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call. What did he desire him to do? Apollyon  would do anything for his master. He had destroyed many cities in his  name and cast many sinners into the bottomless pit. He had even fought  the Devil and defeated him.<\/p>\n<p>He frowned when he saw the city.<\/p>\n<p>Paris.<\/p>\n<p>The desire to go to the Eiffel Tower and find the mortal female was  strong but he resisted it and flew over the city, trying to find his  master. The call was quieter now and difficult to locate. It burned  within him, relentless and driving him to search, even when he was  beginning to wonder if he would be searching forever and if this was  just a cruel joke because he had cursed.<\/p>\n<p>The Devil would do such a despicable thing. He had a strong voice and  could throw it well. He had always promised Apollyon that he would pay  for all the times he had cast him back into Hell.<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon swooped lower, effortlessly cutting through the warmer air,  delighting at the feel of it tickling his black feathers and washing  over his skin. Turning, he dived down a side street, skimming low above  the heads of the mortals, causing a wind to gust against them. He smiled  when they shrieked and grabbed their clothes to keep them in place. It  was wrong to take such childish pleasure from doing such things, but all  angels had a tendency to misuse their invisibility.<\/p>\n<p>A strong beat of his wings and he was soaring upwards again. He landed  on the edge of the roof of an old pale stone building and looked across  the city towards the Eiffel Tower. It speared the clear sky, surrounded  by lush green at the base. He was about to fly there when he felt as  though someone was speaking his name again.<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon focused, frowning as he tried to discern the direction it was  coming from. His gaze shot back to the Eiffel Tower. There?<\/p>\n<p>He ran to the far edge of the building and leapt off, waiting until he  was close to the flagstones of the square below before he unfurled his  wings and beat them, shooting straight across the square only a few feet  above the ground. He ducked and weaved through the people and came out  over a grassy bank. The river was ahead and beyond it the Eiffel Tower.  He flew straight for it and then came to an abrupt halt in mid-air when  he heard the call again. It was behind him.<\/p>\n<p>He scoured the people below. Was his master down there, amongst them, calling to him?<\/p>\n<p>His master had several guises. Apollyon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes darted over the mortals,  stopping for barely a second on each face. None of them matched how he  remembered his master.<\/p>\n<p>The call came clearer this time, beating in his heart. His gaze shot in the direction it had come from and his eyes widened.<\/p>\n<p>Her?<\/p>\n<p>A fair-haired mortal female stood beside one of the fountains below,  her back to him and the warm breeze playing with the short skirt of her  dark red dress. The jets of water from the fountains sprayed high, the  droplets catching the wind and settling on his skin when it blew towards  him.<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon frowned.<\/p>\n<p>It had to be the Devil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work.<\/p>\n<p>He had been watching her, had cursed, and then she had called him. It  was ridiculous. No mortal had the power to call an angel, and he had not  had a different master since eternity began and the angels had made a  pact with him.<\/p>\n<p>Cautiously, Apollyon swooped down, closer to her, hovering bare metres above her head. Had she called him?<\/p>\n<p>She raised a hand to her face and it lingered there. He couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see  what she was doing. Her shoulders heaved and a wave of sorrow and anger  washed over him. She was hurting.<\/p>\n<p>He landed mid-way along the bridge over the river behind her and  stepped down off the wall, changing his appearance as he did so. His  wings didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to disappear and it took several strides towards her  before he was sure the mortals wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see them and that his glamour  was falling into place. He changed his clothes, replacing his armour  with a fine black suit, with a black shirt and a dark blue tie, and then  swept his long hair back and tied it at the nape of his neck in a  ponytail.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, he lifted the force that made him invisible to the mortal eye  and walked casually towards her. He took the blue handkerchief from his  pocket, stepped up behind her, and hesitated for only a moment before  touching her shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you alright?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said in French, hoping he had the right language  and the right words. He hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spoken to anyone in a long time and  although he knew modern languages, he had never used them.<\/p>\n<p>She touched her face again, her long fair hair a curtain which he  couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see beyond, and sniffed. When she turned to face him, she was  smiling. Her hazel eyes lit on the offered handkerchief at first and  then slowly ran up his arm to his chest and then towards his face. She  was more beautiful in the flesh, her features soft and her eyes round.  She could be an angel herself. He hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t realised how much shorter than  him she would be. She was at least a head shorter, and petite too.<\/p>\n<p>The moment her gaze met his, her expression changed. Her hand stopped  close to taking the handkerchief and horror filled her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Get away from me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Her French held a sharp note of panic and then she stormed towards the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon frowned, looked at the handkerchief, and then went after her.<\/p>\n<p>She glanced over her shoulder and her pace increased. It was easy to  close the gap between them. His strides were longer than hers and her  little heeled sandals were clearly not made for a swift escape.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leave me alone.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Why was she running?<\/p>\n<p>People were staring, murmuring to each other. She was causing a scene and he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t quite sure why.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Get away from me!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d She turned to face him and then backed away, the  fear still bright in her eyes. They darkened when she frowned and spoke  as though uttering a curse. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Abaddon.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t heard that name in a long time.<\/p>\n<p>She knew he was an angel.<\/p>\n<p>How? Had his glamour failed? It had been millennia since he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d had to  cast one. He looked around them at the watching mortals. None of them  looked afraid. If they could see an angel before them as she could, they  would be reacting the same as she was. People would be screaming that  the Apocalypse was nigh and the world was going to end. He would be in  serious trouble with his master.<\/p>\n<p>He remembered that she had called him. Could she see through the glamour? Was she different somehow to other mortals?<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to die,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she muttered almost beneath her breath and cast a fearful look his way.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going as he had expected. She wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t supposed to have been  able to see that he was an angel. She was supposed to have accepted his  kind offer of a handkerchief to dry her tears and told him why she was  crying so he could figure out what he was doing here and whether someone  was playing a trick on him.<\/p>\n<p>Tears spilled down her cheeks and she wrapped her arms around herself,  making herself small and making him want to reach out to her and somehow  ease her suffering. Whatever pain had caused her to cry, it was still  strong within her heart, tormenting her. He could feel it. There was  some sort of connection to her that gave him insight into her feelings, a  sense that she needed him and that they were supposed to have met here  today.<\/p>\n<p>It was ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>A mortal could never call him. They didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the voice.<\/p>\n<p>He had been alone too long and was dreaming all of this, seeing things as he wanted them and not with clear eyes.<\/p>\n<p>There was only one way of finding out whether she had called him  somehow. He had hoped to discover it through casual conversation but  that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t an option now. It was time for a more direct approach.<\/p>\n<p>He stepped towards her and she backed away again, holding both of her  hands out as though that gesture alone could stop him if he wanted to  get to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Please,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she whispered and shook her head, sending more tears tumbling down her pale cheeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Leave her alone.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d A burly man started towards him.<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon lost patience and cast his hand out, waving it across the gathered crowd. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is nothing interesting to see here.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Their expressions went slack and they moved as one, drifting off and  back into their own lives, moving past him and the mortal woman as  though they weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even there.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh God, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to kill me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He frowned at her. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why would you say such a thing?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what you do.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d There was accusation in her tone and a hint of bravery.<\/p>\n<p>Courage in the face of death?<\/p>\n<p>A moment ago, she had been fleeing him and now she looked ready to fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have not done such a thing in a very long time.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He sighed. It was  never going to leave him. Spend a few centuries as the angel of death  and no one forgets. Everyone presumes you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re still in charge of taking  life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s final breath from mortals. Still, it was better than the other  rumour that he was the Devil. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There is a fleet of angels who do it  now.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look as though she believed him. Her hands trembled in front of her.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ask for my powers. Please don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t take me there.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Where?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d His patience was wearing thin again and he seemed to be unable  to get his question out into the open. He tracked back over what she  had said.<\/p>\n<p>Powers?<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153All the fires of Hell are in your wake&#8230; I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to go there. I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t done anything wrong.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon looked behind him. All he could see was Paris. The edge of the stone bridge and the murky river, and the city beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You are gifted.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He looked back at her, deep into her hazel eyes. She  nodded. Was this how she had called him? He frowned and looked at the  fountains at the other end of the bridge behind him and then at her.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What were you doing there?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>She looked past him, blinked a few times, and then her eyebrows rose.  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Nothing really. Contemplating life, I guess, and how shitty it was.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You did not ask for anything?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He stepped closer to her and this time  she didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t back away. She kept staring at the fountain with wide eyes.  Tears lined her dark lashes. All of her fear disappeared and the pain  returned. She clutched her hands to her chest, and he felt the hurt well  up inside her, overwhelming her.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Revenge,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she whispered and her gaze darted to him. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I asked for vengeance against that cheating bastard.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Cheating? A sinner?<\/p>\n<p>She had called for vengeance and he had heard her, and he had felt  compelled to answer and accept her mission. He couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Contracting  with her would break the one between him and his master.<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon looked at her, studying her pale beauty.<\/p>\n<p>She had called him and he had come. She was his master now. He had  accepted the mission and the contract the moment he had left Hell.<\/p>\n<p>He was going to get into trouble for this.<\/p>\n<p>It had been a while since he had been on Earth though, and although the  angels who watched over mortals now tolerated the old sins and only  took them into account at death rather than punished the sinner during  their life, he did still hate some of them.<\/p>\n<p>Infidelity in particular.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you really here to kill me?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon smiled and a hint of colour touched her cheeks. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You called me  and I came to you, not to take your life but to ease your suffering.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>She swallowed and looked as though she was going to deny that she was  in pain. Apollyon stepped up to her and touched her face. Her skin was  warm, soft, and felt good beneath his fingertips. He caressed her cheek,  placed his fingers under her chin, and raised her eyes to his.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whatever he did to you, I will make him suffer for it, but no man is  worth such tears. Your heart will heal in time and you will love again.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Her hazel eyes searched his.<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon stared deep into them, feeling a strange warmth travel along  his hand from where his fingertips touched her face. It chased through  him and finally settled in his chest, burning there, stirring feelings  that he had long forgotten existed.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I will give you the revenge you seek.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Those words were distant to his ears even though they issued from his lips.<\/p>\n<p>He was lost in her eyes, in the way she was looking at him with so much warmth.<\/p>\n<p>Was it gratitude that made her look that way?<\/p>\n<p>Or was it something else?<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Are you a goddess?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he whispered, trying to keep his thoughts on track and on his mission.<\/p>\n<p>She shook her head, moving his fingers with her, and licked her lips.  He made the mistake of looking at them, watching the soft pink tip of  her tongue sweep over them. A surge of hunger swept through him and he  took his hand away, shocked by the strength of his desire and the  suddenness of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a witch,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said, matter of fact, with a little shrug.<\/p>\n<p>Apollyon stared at her. Was he making a terrible mistake by helping  her? A part of him said to leave now before it was too late and he  became too deeply involved with her.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t though.<\/p>\n<p>She had cast a spell on him.<\/p>\n<p>And he was a slave to her.<\/p>\n<p><b>Available in e-book from:<\/b><br \/><b>Author&#8217;s website:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Dark%20Angel\">http:\/\/www.felicityheaton.com\/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Dark%20Angel<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle Germany:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.de\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon Kindle UK:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00408AQ98\/<\/a><br \/><b>Barnes and Noble:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Her-Dark-Angel\/Felicity-Heaton\/e\/2940011095184\/\">http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Her-Dark-Angel\/Felicity-Heaton\/e\/2940011095184\/<\/a><br \/><b>Kobo Books:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/ebook\/Her-Dark-Angel-Her-Angel\/mix-IpUY_pcZyka--k8L1kLPkQ\/page1.html\">http:\/\/www.kobobooks.com\/ebook\/Her-Dark-Angel-Her-Angel\/mix-IpUY_pcZyka&#8211;k8L1kLPkQ\/page1.html<\/a><br \/><b>Sony Reader Store:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/ebookstore.sony.com\/ebook\/felicity-heaton\/her-dark-angel-her-angel-romance-series\/_\/R-400000000000000277045\">http:\/\/ebookstore.sony.com\/ebook\/felicity-heaton\/her-dark-angel-her-angel-romance-series\/_\/R-400000000000000277045<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Available in paperback from:<\/b><br \/><b>Amazon.co.uk:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1456489836\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1456489836\/<\/a><br \/><b>Amazon.com:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1456489836\/\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1456489836\/<\/a><br \/><b>Barnes and Noble:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Her-Angel\/Felicity-Heaton\/e\/9781456489830\/\">http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Her-Angel\/Felicity-Heaton\/e\/9781456489830\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enjoyed this tease?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m posting a Teaseday excerpt for Her Dark Angel. 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