Herald
For Meeka and Ian, who kept asking about this book. I hope Gabriel is everything you wanted him to be.
Chapter 1
Gabriel cringed away from the light that pierced through his eyelids, head pounding. Somebody chuckled off to his left in a deep, easy roll of sound and Gabriel moaned as the headache intensified for a second. He could only grumble softly at that chuckle. “Anyone get a look at the Kraut who dropped that mortar on my head? I need to return the favor.”
There was a snort. “No,” the rough, amused voice answered. “I doubt it was a Nazi soldier who did whatever you’re complaining of.” The man’s voice hardened ever so slightly. “And Kraut is pretty f*****g rude.”
Gabriel’s eyes popped open of their own accord. Interesting that the man found a word objectionable. With a pain
