Ascended: Bittersweet 4

By Elena Snowfield

AS A POWERFUL BEING, IS HE INVINCIBLE FROM HIS HUMAN FEELINGS?
A GODLING IS ASCENDED

Gabriel's second fall to the sacred cenote hastens him to his true self, that of a godling. He is discovering everything anew. He is most curious about his distance from what used to govern him when he was human — emotions.

Unlike his first awakening, he remembers everything now with crystal-clear clarity. He remembers every emotion that went with each memory and each person he's ever known. But there is the human female, the beautiful Sofia. As he helps her and her companions survive the jungle on their quest to get back to civilization in the aftermath of the hurricane, he is reminded of everything they had shared when he was human, and feeling. In him is a curious desire. He wants good things for her. He wants her to be happy, most of all.

And he did what he should do — let her go back to a home she has always wanted to come back to. Even if it means she will leave Mexico and the jungle.

Meanwhile, he is on his own journey of awakening. And he wonders if he can also leave his jungle to explore and find... what?

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INCREDIBLY ENOUGH, they all fell asleep... only to be awakened by great, fat drops of rain falling onto their faces.

“Huh, I guess the jungle does listen,” Sam said.

Sofia was already wrapping leaves into cones, the way Sam had done the day before. Now that they were no longer under the thick foliage of the jungle, they got drenched quickly, and it wasn’t long before they all pressed against each other, back-to-back, trying to stay warm and collect as much water as they could.

The rain tasted metallic and warm, but it was liquid, and they were parched.

They stayed where they were while the rain poured down around them, drinking as soon as they managed to collect a full “cup” of water, even though they were no longer thirsty. Even though Sofia didn’t think their bodies could actually hold onto the water – they were not camels, after all; and even though Sam confirmed to her that short of catching and recycling their sweat and the moisture they lost through breathing (the water would just pass out of them), she still felt compelled to drink. Feast and famine, she thought, as she drank down her third cup.

And then she saw him – Gabriel, standing on the road. She started and then scrambled to her feet to run to him. She didn’t know what she would say or do once she reached him but the long grass hid tough tendrils, and her foot got caught in one, and she fell.

By the time she extracted herself, he was gone again.

“Sofia!” Sam shouted as he came up behind her. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?”

“I saw him,” she said. “I saw him – Gabriel.”

“You saw him, too?” he said.

“You mean, you also saw him?”

“I saw him,” Sam said. “I didn’t want to believe it. I was afraid he was going to try to kill you, but I couldn’t be sure he was real.”

Sofia shook her head. “He won’t kill me,” she said.

“I wouldn’t be so sure,” Sam said.

Other Titles (Bittersweet Series):

1. Reborn

2. Sacrificed

3. Tormented

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Sandra Ross
• Release date: Sep 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311568328

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Ascended

By Elena Snowfield

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Chapter One

SOFIA! Wait!

She heard them, but her heart was racing too wildly. Her legs, it seemed, were running of their own accord. Anything to keep from remembering what it was she'd just seen -- Gabriel, summoning a bolt of lightning from the sky, incinerating a man before her eyes.

How can that be real? How can that be possible? What happened to Gabriel?

She stumbled through the jungle, panicked at the thought of losing Gabriel and everything he was to her, unable to comprehend what she'd just seen.

A man had died. Gabriel had killed him. Those two facts alone were incompatible to her.

Run!

That was all she could do.

And yet, somehow, somewhere, from the depths of her heart, there came a measure of calm.

He's dead. He died, just like they said he would. Gabriel is dead.

She slowed down and took deep, gulping breaths. She should feel sad or angry about it yet she couldn't bring herself to feel anything. The replacement of the young man she'd known and loved with some vengeful demigod who probably didn't even know who she was... was not as traumatic a loss as she'd thought it would be.

A moment passed before she understood what it meant -- she'd always known that she would lose him. Somehow, some way, she would lose him. She had always known that he was not of this world even before the incident with the snakes.

Sam and Amber came crashing through the foliage after her, gasping for breath as they caught up to her.

We really should stick together, Sam panted. It's a jungle out here.

Right, Sofia agreed. But even as she spoke, the jungle seemed to... shift around them, and she realized that she hadn't been crashing through the jungle at all, but that a path had opened up for them where there had been none.

Which way do we go? Amber asked, her voice shaking. The three of them glanced around. There was no track -- they'd lost it when they were drawn into the clearing. Sofia's mad plunge back into the jungle meant that there was no way for them to figure out where they had been, unless they wanted to go back and see the horrific sight of the incinerated body.

Facing down Gabriel, or whatever it was that Gabriel had become, was not something any of them considered.

I guess we follow the path, Sofia said.

Sam shook his head. We don't know where it goes.

Do we have a choice? Sofia asked. She was looking at Amber who had been quiet for most of their ordeal.

Amber had been worrying Sofia in a minor way ever