Desire: #4 Brightest Kind of Darkness

Desire

Brightest Kind of Darkness

Book 4

by

P.T. Michelle

Now that Nara and Ethan are working together to uncover the Corvus’ secrets, they’re confident nothing can stop them.

But while they’ve learned to anticipate dark outside forces gunning for them, neither is prepared for the insidious evil that slithers its way into their lives, nor the new challenges that surface so close to home.

Despite all the chaos and turmoil around them, the one constant they can depend on is their devotion and loyalty to each other. But as their relationship moves into deeper territory, sometimes the toughest battles are the ones waged within.

While the hunt for answers unravels more layers in the Corvus world, they also uncover new truths about themselves and their intricate connection to the powerful raven spirit.

When boundaries are suddenly redrawn and control shifts, Ethan and Nara will be forced to make choices that could bring them closer together or rip them apart forever.

Note: DESIRE is the 4
^th
book in the Brightest Kind of Darkness series. It is recommended that you read the previous books before reading this book. DESIRE isn’t the last book in the Brightest Kind of Darkness series. There will be one more book.

Copyright 2014 by P.T. Michelle

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Chapter One

Nara

“Are you an angel, Nara?”

Ethan’s deep blue eyes search mine, hard. I’m not sure what he hopes to find. Deception? Amusement? Confusion? Most definitely that last one.

“I’m not an angel.” The conversation I’d just had with Michael downstairs before the archangel vanished flashes through my mind. I hold Ethan’s gaze for another beat, then shrug. Michael pretty much told me that the raven spirit inside Ethan, his Corvus, has lost sight of who he is…and Michael chose me to lead the spirit back to the truth about himself. “Michael says I need to study the map more before we burn it,” I say, turning down the hall toward my room.

“Michael?” Ethan falls into step behind me. “As in the archangel who kicked Lucifer out of heaven? He’s the blond man who’s been popping up and talking to people in our lives?”

“The one and only,” I say over my shoulder and enter my room. “At least now he’s no longer a mystery.’”

“Why did he say we should study the map?”

“He wants to make sure we stay on track. The map must be important somehow.”

Ethan frowns as I pull the map out of my metal trashcan now sitting in the middle of my room. He’d folded and shoved the map in it, ready for me to torch the paper once I returned with the matches. “On track to what?”

I shake my head and spread the map back out on my desk. “My guess is it has something to do with my connection to ravens and the Corvus.”

Excitement fills his expression. “So he told you what your role is?”

“Just that I’m supposed to help the Corvus,” I say, then swing my attention to the paper. “Somehow this map plays a part. Why else would he tell me to study it more before I destroy it?”

Technically, there’s just
one
Corvus that Michael asked me to help. But Ethan has only just started to accept the dark and dangerous mystical aspects of the Corvus spirit within him. He has already refused to believe what Fate said to me earlier: that Ethan isn’t just any Corvus, he’s the Master Corvus—the main spirit responsible for creating
all
Corvus. Not that I blame him for his skepticism of Fate. Any dealings I’ve had with the vengeful, smoky entity in the past have always turned into Fate trying to take what he wanted from me, no matter the cost.

Michael confirmed Fate’s motive for telling me the true identity of the Corvus inside Ethan was to protect his own hide from the Master Corvus’ wrath. The powerful raven spirit had already threatened Fate once for attacking me in Ethan’s dream world. And now Fate wants me to keep the Master Corvus in line. Ironic how Fate expects me to have a conscience when he doesn’t.

Fate is the least of my worries. Michael’s revelation about Ethan has left me wondering—What is the best way to tell Ethan that the Corvus inside him has forgotten the critical role
he
plays in ridding our world of the demons possessing humans? Without the Master Corvus’ involvement, if another Corvus dies while trying to save a possessed person from a demon, no new Corvus will be created, and the balance between Corvus and Inferni (Lucifer’s demons) and Furiae (lower demons) would skew strongly in the demons’ favor. I want to tell Ethan that Michael confirmed Fate’s statement about the Master Corvus, but right now, he’s in major denial mode—most likely bolstered by his Corvus’ fierce and adamant refusal to believe. He’s too wound up to accept the truth. For now.

“Why didn’t Michael talk to me too?” Ethan’s disgruntled question filters through my conflicted thoughts as I push the wrinkles out of the map. I mumble about differing vibrational levels and try to concentrate on the red marks I’d made earlier with the feather tattoo I’d peeled off my shoulder blade.

Um, yeah…if you had asked me back in October if tattoos could turn into real objects, I’d have laughed in your face. Then again, that was before I’d met Ethan and learned that Fate, demons, and angels actually exist and aren’t just fictional characters created to keep us in line.