Wings of Salvation

By Adrianna Dane

Going against the traditional mating practices of their winged society, twins Andras and Dario will offer Flaire something no one else can. Will it provide the trio a chance at love?

Andras and Dario are identical winged twins, the first winged males born in more than two thousand years. Their destiny, however, is yet elusive.

Flaire was the beautiful, flame-tipped, winged woman they both adored, yet destined to mate elsewhere. But time had run out for Flaire and she disappeared from their lives, leaving an aching void. They have searched for their childhood friend, never giving up, and now they have information that she's been captured and is to be sold at a black market auction. It's up to them to rescue her from the savage clutches of the poachers who have entrapped her.

But there's something special about Flaire that she's always kept hidden, even from her two best friends. A knowledge she never dared share. And the twins have never revealed their deep feelings for her, knowing she was destined for someone far different. Someone not born on Vrotia.

Yet urgency dictates, and going dangerously against the traditional mating practices of their society, Andras and Dario will offer Flaire something no one else can. But will it be enough to save her? And maybe provide the trio a chance at love for which they could have never hoped?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dream Romantic Unlimited LLC
• Release date: Apr 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370835188

Adrianna Dane

Adrianna Dane has been putting pen to paper since the age of ten. She currently resides in the state of Washington. She has a great fondness for using a fountain pen when writing her first drafts. Hobby interests are varied, including photography and traveling. The first defining love story Adrianna read back in junior high school was "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, and that set her on the road to her long-standing love affair with books of all genres. Her inspiration in writing often can be found by listening to song lyrics, from hard rock to classical, and reading poetry by such poets as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ranier Maria Rilke. But finding inspiration for her stories truly has no boundaries for Adrianna. In 2006, her dark fantasy GLBT story, Body Parts, won its category in the Dream Realm Awards. Adrianna has written more than 100 stories, short, novella, and novel length, delving into many facets of the human condition - contemporary, futuristic, and fantasy, and all the flavors therein and in between. In other words, wherever the story and the characters, as well as their intricate stories, take her imagination, then her pen and/or computer keyboard, are sure to follow.

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Andras and Dario are identical winged twins, the first winged males born in more than two thousand years. Their destiny, however, is yet elusive.

Flaire was the beautiful, flame-tipped, winged woman they both adored, yet destined to mate elsewhere. But time had run out for Flaire and she disappeared from their lives, leaving an aching void. They have searched for their childhood friend, never giving up, and now they have information that she's been captured and is to be sold at a black market auction. It's up to them to rescue her from the savage clutches of the poachers who have entrapped her.

But there's something special about Flaire that she's always kept hidden, even from her two best friends. A knowledge she never dared share. And the twins have never revealed their deep feelings for her, knowing she was destined for someone far different. Someone not born on Vrotia.

Yet urgency dictates, and going dangerously against the traditional mating practices of their society, Andras and Dario will offer Flaire something no one else can. But will it be enough to save her? And maybe provide the trio a chance at love for which they could have never hoped?

This story is a work of original fiction. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, or have been used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright 2018 by Adrianna Dane

Cover Art Designs by T. A. Gallup

This story was originally released in December 2007 by Amber Quill Press/Amber Heat

CAUTION: This story contains explicit sexual situations and strong language. You must be over the age of 18 years of age to read this story.

Wings of Salvation

By Adrianna Dane

Dream Romantic Unlimited, LLC

Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Author Bio

Networking Links

Chapter One

Andras walked into the sleazy bar on the dark side of Antebbe. He wore a brown, hooded cloak that served to disguise his identity and shroud his ebony wings, the very conspicuous feature proclaiming that he was one of the winged sons of Lura and Nathan. There were times when the notoriety of his and his brother’s births was definitely not a good thing. Entering this place, on this mission, was one of them.

He and Dario had flipped a coin piece to decide who would respond to the Moneylender’s note and the urgency that seemed to radiate from it. Dario was the level-headed one, the first-born by all of ten minutes and probably would have been the logical one to keep the meeting if it had been held at any other place.

But then Andras was the risk taker, the daring no-fear adventurer who tackled chancy endeavors no right-minded Vrotian should, and this sort of place might just demand some of his more lucrative skills. And so they had flipped the coin piece and Andras had won, or lost, depending on how one looked at it. But then who had ever assumed Andras was right-minded?

::Well, have you learned anything yet?::

Andras sighed. Another thing about he and his brother being twins was the telepathic communication. Again, sometimes good, sometimes bad. He had to admit it had gotten him out of more than one difficult situation over the last twenty-seven years.

::No, Dario, now leave me alone and focus on keeping our parents occupied.::

::They’re fine. Right now they’re engaged in conversation with our grandmother.::

Andras narrowed his gaze and searched the darkened interior of the bar. He spotted Marius at a back table, piles of gold coin pieces stacked before the moneylender. Using coins for trade was rather a newer method of barter on Vrotia. But the city populations had grown and the old ways were fast becoming obsolete. It was only within the last fifteen or twenty years that this new exchange had been created. And the dark side had taken to the exchange with rapidity. Andras reached down to the pouch tied to his leather belt. He had a feeling that whatever Marius had for sale was not going to be cheap. His hunger for coin was well known.

One, he said to the barkeep and then tossed a coin onto the polished wood surface of the bar.

The heavily tattooed tender handed him an amber bottle and swiped up the coin piece. Andras tipped the bottle and let the cool liquid slide down his throat.

::Andras! Get going. Find out what that note meant and get back here.::

The voice of demanding reason inside his head. No matter where he went, his brother always had a way of reeling him back in. It would be rude to block him out, particularly right now. But there were times when distance played a