CHAPTER FOURTEEN : Becoming Daniel
Daniel couldn’t sleep.
Not after his skin lit up like a dying star.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaOAxJs0Pw1
Not after he felt her inside him — not just emotionally, but something deeper.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiAKOyvftZL
Celestial. Corrupted. Irrevocable.
Lilith watched him from the shadows of their living room.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGHh6kJZYQG
She didn't blink.
“They marked you,” she said again, quieter now.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhjV1QV7RYg
“That blade wasn’t just divine. It was bait.”
Daniel’s laugh was dry.
“So what? I’m infected now?”
She knelt in front of him.
“No. You’re awakening.”
The mark on his chest—where the sword scraped him—had started to glow.
It pulsed like a second heartbeat.
Not Heaven’s light.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcPpfiBrEyR
Not Hell’s fire.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzjCEi0erFf
Something... in between.
Her darkness. His purity. Merging.
“I should be terrified,” he said.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLuF9hLhEZC
“But I’m not.”
Lilith leaned closer.
Her fingertips grazed the mark.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGBGTnTgoT
“You’re not losing your humanity,” she said.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrns9ckrnJG
“You’re becoming what they fear most.”
They were sitting too close now.
The kind of close that whispered danger.
Lilith’s breath hitched as Daniel cupped her jaw.
“You’re trembling,” he said.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3scHxzPUWS
“You, of all people.”
“I never meant for you to be dragged into this.”
“I never meant to fall for you,” he whispered back.
And then…
Her lips crashed into his.
A kiss that burned instead of soothed.
Hungry. Desperate.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXQBk9FkS4
Her tongue tasted of ash and guilt.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXAW6zZfe7w
His tasted like fire meeting rain.
The mark on his chest flared.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl7qrztTIy2
So did her wings.
The kiss deepened until it wasn’t just skin and heat—
—but soul and storm.
She pulled back, gasping.
“If we go further, you’ll change faster.”
Daniel’s eyes were glowing faintly now.6Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxOCAFxLmT0
Not gold. Not red.
Something unnamed.
“Then take me. I want to be yours.”
And Lilith?
She didn’t resist anymore.
Because what was forbidden…
Had already happened.
That night, the angel didn’t fall alone.
Daniel fell with her.
And Heaven felt the tremor.
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