Angels Can Love

By Victor Paul

Mike is an angel tasked to help the homeless of New York City. On the streets of Manhattan, Mike runs into Alice. Overwhelmed by love at first sight, he realises he would need to become human in order to be with Alice. Mike approaches The One in hope of experiencing human life for one day. The One grants Mike until sunrise the following day to make a crucial decision: to remain human or return to his angelic existence. What Mike decides to do will change his fate forever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Sep 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9781528968096

Victor Paul

Victor Paul is a versatile Australian author. There is something for everyone in his engaging stories. When he is not writing, Victor enjoys watching movies and keeping fit.

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Victor Paul is a versatile Australian author. There is something for everyone in his engaging stories. When he is not writing, Victor enjoys watching movies and keeping fit.

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Prologue

I didn’t want to be an angel anymore. My mind was made up. I’d never had such an intense feeling my whole life. The way Alice made me feel changed everything. I had very little desire to remain as an angel from that point on. Without any earthly garments or angelic clothing on, there I was, underneath the sheets. Alice was the first human to see me in this way.

With Alice fast asleep in my arms, I wondered if this was the very feeling that I’d been longing for all my life. I wanted to spend every single moment from now on with Alice. I felt connected, loved and cared for in a very strange sense. The One had always loved and cared for me, but this felt different. I craved the human touch that Alice gave me; the warmth of holding her against my chest. I loved what it felt like to be human even though I had only experienced it for a day.

The sun was slowly starting to rise, painting the clouds with ribbons of reds and oranges. My time to decide if I was going to continue on as human or return back as an angel was running out. If I woke up and left, I would return as an angel to The One. I would always wonder what it’d be like to wake up on Earth every morning as a human. What it would be like to feel the breeze upon my face and watch the leaves light up in flames of grand colours at the end of autumn. I knew those thoughts would linger within me for the rest of my existence. However, if I did stay, I would give up my entire existence as an angel. I was opening myself to every other human experience that I had seen so far but not yet experienced.

The One had given me the