Caj's Angel

By Nikki Prince

Caj was once human and in love with an angel named Mercy. Having committed an unforgiveable sin, Caj is punished by The Maker to take on the sins of others so that those souls can be ushered into heaven by an angel. Caj is finding it hard to reconcile who he used to be with what he has become and feels he should let Mercy go.

But can he?

Mercy sees Caj as she remembered him. She knows that he beats himself up daily for his own sins, let alone having to take on others' sins as a penance. The only way for them to be together is for him to go before The Maker and make amends or their love will be lost forever.

Will The Maker allow them their happiness or are Caj and Mercy forever doomed to have loved and lost?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Evernight
• Release date: Feb 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9780369505651

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Copyright© 2022 Nikki Prince

ISBN: 978-0-3695-0565-1

Cover Artist: Jay Aheer

Editor: Audrey Bobak

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This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, and places are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

DEDICATION

To my ancestors, known and unknown thank you for the love of words. To my kids, my love for you is unconditional and infinite.

CAJ’S ANGEL

Eternal Lovers, prequel

Nikki Prince

Copyright © 2022

Chapter One

How people die remains in the memory of those who live on

—Dame Cicely Saunders

Caj

Caj wasn’t afraid of her. She was a being who equaled his will and strength. What he was afraid of was that she would leave. That this would be the last time he ever looked at her again. Never trust an angel. Only pain and suffering can come from such … devotion and love. Their love is too pure for the likes of one who takes on sin. The words echoed through his mind, long-lost words of a sin-eater from the past. One who’d known what it meant to have loved and truly lost.

What the hell do I know about love?

I know a lot.

I know it’s a feeling beyond compare. A feeling most live and die for.

God, he’d been reduced to arguing with himself. It had been centuries since he’d even touched on such an emotion. He lived through others and enjoyed the thrill their desires aroused in him. However, it also kept him wanting something more. More than anything, his need for her overrode everything else.

Mercy had been his only chance to feel something other than the blackness of sin and the longings of others. Being a sin-eater, he took in the sins of humans so they would die a sweet death and be able to go through the pearly gates to reach their nirvana. She, on the other hand, escorted them through gates he might never see. After all, he had been cursed and doomed to this fate of taking on a mortal’s pain, anguish, and yes, even their evil.

Mercy, my beautiful, sweet divine Mercy.

Mercy deserved better, and she could be with someone better than him. As always, he watched her from the shadows, lurking behind the dark veil.

Mercy stood off in the far corner of the room.