Page 32 of The Goddess is Angry
“Get the fuck out of my dorm room. I’m going with George.”
What? I mean, I wasn’t mad at the idea. I was kind of into it, really. Kaylee stomped her foot like a child and went storming out of the room.
“This isall your fault,George!” she shrieked.
Yeah, it was always my fault when it came to Kaylee Krauss. She slammed the door and Drake turned to me.
“Sorry, I just blurted that out, but I meant it. And you seemed mad at the idea of me going with someone else.”
“Because I was! And it didn’t make sense because a few weeks ago, we couldn’t stand each other. But everything West said is true. You’re insanely hot, goalies are sexy, you’re like walking sex when you play the violin,andyou compose, and I completely love that you give me a hard time and don’t treat me like the sun shines out of my ass.”
That part was vital, and I didn’t want it to change when they all found out I was a god. Loki and my dad were a little more humble because they fell in love and handfasted into covens with people who revered them as gods, but absolutely called them out when they were being ridiculous. People were going to change when I took my necklace off and I didn’t want any of my guys to. I liked my relationship with Drake. If we were going to take it to the next step, I was into that, but I didn’t want Drake’s whole personality to change.
Drake stepped forward and yanked me to his chest.
“Nevertell anyone I said this because I have a reputation, but the sundoesshine out of your ass and the music has been flowing since we decided we didn’t hate each other. I’m always going to be the kind of man that is going to support the shit out of everything you do but with my own brand of snark.”
“And I’m always going to be the woman who wants and needs that. Promise no matter what happens, that doesn’t change.”
“I’d pinky swear, but I’m about to kiss you.”
“You’d better make it good because—”
“Shut up, George.”
And then Drake took my breath away kissing me. It was the kind of kiss you gave someone when you spent weeks loathing them, decided to tolerate them because the fates said they were the only way you’d get answers, then you realized they were kind of amazing, and you got irrationally angry at the idea of anyone else inviting them to the moon orgy.
It wasthatkind of scorching kiss.
My knees felt like jelly and I wanted more. Drake stopped me when I started tugging at his shirt. West was spot on about something else, too. Even though I was immune, the fact that Drake’s entire body was venomous was exciting.
“Oh, no, George. You aren’t getting all this until the full moon.”
I poked him in the chest.
“You’re lucky you’re a goalieandplay the violin because that’s mean as hell.”
That asshole kissed me the exact same way again andkicked me out of his dorm.
“Anticipation makes it feel better when it finally happens, George!” he called to my back.
I didn’t turn around and threw up double middle fingers at him. Bell women didn’t beg for sex.
azren
There were probably a ton of people on this realm who would kill to be the headmaster of The Academy of the Profane. Some of these assholes who ran this place probably did. There was currently an overlooked warlock teaching Dark Arts who not onlywantedthe job but would be better at it than me and the person I was filling in for.
I was fucking miserable.
My happy place was teaching. Not only was I kicked out of my classroom, but I had the whole board up my ass all the time and I kept having to cancel my private lessons with George. She had become the high point of my day and so I was spoiling the shit out of her when I had her alone. She’d never been treated like a god by someone who wasn’t her family because of that necklace and she needed it.
If I wasn’t dealing with the board demanding I clean up the mess they thought I’d made giving Fleur’s coven closure and letting the student body know to watch their backs so they didn’t end up next, I had to deal with shrieking freshmen. Two in particular.
Theonlyreason Reyson agreed to come lecture for a few weeks was because someone finally asked when his kids were here. Loki had never been asked, and he was up next. Freya loved teaching just as much as I did. She taught Odin himself, but the board was greedy and wanted as many gods as I could bring.
Reyson hadn’t disappeared a student and by all reports, nearly everyone was having a blast in his class. The two that weren’t had been camping out in my new office bothering me about it. Yeah, Icouldhave told Reyson to stop kicking Kaylee out for tardiness and insulting Paris for defending her, but I wasn’t.
The two of them needed to learn that life wasn’t fair and actions had consequences. It didn’t matter how powerful your name or family was, there was always going to be someone who outranked you. The board was going to give Kaylee two more strikes. If someone didn’t catch those on video like Dexter had, Lindsay wasn’t going to enforce it and expel her when she did.
