All Chapters of Fallen Light: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The ringing came with Evelyn's frantic pounding on the door. "Adeline! Open the door! I know Elio's in there!"I shuddered and shrank under the covers.Adeline pressed a hand on my shoulder and gave it a soothing pat. "Don't be scared. I'll go see."She stood, walked to the entryway, and opened the door.Evelyn charged straight in. Her designer pantsuit looked slightly rumpled, and her eyes were bloodshot from a sleepless night. When she saw me propped up against the headboard, she strode over. "Elio, come with me."She reached for my wrist. I flinched and pulled away from her touch.Evelyn's hand froze in midair, and her face darkened. "Why are you pulling away? I'm your wife! Come to the hospital with me. Hudson's condition is getting worse, and he urgently needs your stem cells to rebuild his blood."She said it as though it were natural, as though I were not a person but a blood bank.I looked at the woman who had once taught me how to dress and how to eat, and spoke softly

I stared at her blankly. I had used my hair, my blood, and my bone marrow to keep this man alive, and in the end, I was the vicious one."That's enough, Evelyn. Please don't hit Elio anymore," Hudson said weakly from the sofa. "This is all my fault. If I just died, you two wouldn't be fighting."Evelyn immediately turned to soothe him. "Don't talk like that. I said I'd save you, and I will."She turned around and pulled a medical kit out from under the coffee table. It was full of needles and blood collection tubes. She tore open the packaging with practiced ease and walked toward me."We'll draw 200 milliliters of blood today to keep Hudson going. As soon as the match results come in tomorrow, we're going straight to the hospital for your bone marrow."I looked at the long, thick needle in her hand and backed away on instinct. "I'm not doing it."Evelyn's eyes turned hard. She grabbed me by the collar, shoved me down onto the sofa, and pinned me there. "You don't get a say! You

I climbed onto the windowsill and was about to jump when a strong hand shot out of the darkness and clamped around my ankle."Elio, where do you think you're going?"At some point, Adeline had appeared in the garden below. She had not bothered with an umbrella, and the rain had soaked straight through her expensive pantsuit.She tilted her head back and looked up at me through the curtain of rain, her eyes so fixated that they sent a chill down my spine. "It's windy up there. It's dangerous. Be good and go back inside, okay?"I clung to the window frame. "Adeline, let go of me! I don't want to stay here anymore! You're all insane!"Adeline did not let go. She yanked down even harder. My foot slipped, and I fell from the second floor with no way to stop myself. "Ah!"I did not hit the cold concrete. I landed against something solid and cold instead. Adeline had broken my fall, and she held on to me so tightly that she nearly cracked my ribs."See, Elio? You can't get away. Even i

The wind howled past my ears. As I plunged downward, my body felt lighter and lighter. The dull ache from the marrow they had taken and the soreness of the needle bruises vanished all at once.Boom!The bone‑shattering pain I had braced for never came. Just before I hit the ground, a dazzling burst of golden light exploded from my chest.It was as if the sun itself had crashed to earth, and in an instant, it swallowed everything around me. The crowd below the hospital broke into terrified screams.I floated inside the golden light. It felt like being suspended in the warmth of a mother's womb. In that moment, the senses that had been sealed away burst open all at once.I heard the rustle of a breeze through the leaves and the blare of car horns in the distance. I felt the warmth of the wind and the glare of the sunlight.Most important of all, I felt an emotion I had never known before. It was anger, the utter coldness that came from seeing through every lie.The golden light sl

I looked down at Evelyn, who was kneeling at my feet. "Why?"I tilted my head, my voice full of innocent curiosity, just as it had been when I first arrived in the human world. "Didn't you say he had a terminal illness and would die, while I was an angel and couldn't?"Evelyn nodded frantically. "Yes! Yes! So save him! Nothing will happen to you!"I smiled, and it was a dazzling smile. "But I already died just now."I pointed at the patch of concrete where I had fallen. "Besides, the reason he's like this now is that I took back all the life I blessed him with before."I watched Evelyn's pupils widen and spelled it out word by word. "I've taken back the life I gave him.""You!" Evelyn pointed at me, her eyes wild with rage, as if she were looking at a monster. "You're so vicious! How could you be this cruel?"I raised my foot and brought it down on the finger she was pointing at me, grinding it without mercy. There was a sharp crack."Ahh!" Evelyn let out a piercing scream.I