Page 56 of The Goddess is Angry
Everyone agreed to hear her out except Church. He stormed out of the dining hall. We were going to have to talk to him later. Church was stalking her at first because her secret kept him fed. He knew it was a big one and said he’d never force her to tell him. Why was he being a dick when she was forced to reveal it?
Because she had several options to lie and keep her secret. She could have used the contents of Headmaster Morningstar’s grimoire, since everyone knew it was full of dark magic. Everyone knew she was with Drake. She could have lied and said Basilisks had super sperm that made her immune to that potion.
Both options meant she couldn’t heal Oscar. I was pretty sure Azren only left to get the board because the necklace was off and she could do it now.
I didn’t knowwhyshe decided to pretend she was a witch, but I had a big feeling the reason that the secret was out was because Oscar was seriously hurt.
I was going to make sure everyone in our coven knew that. If they didn’t understand she was willing to out herself to protect us, then they didn’t deserve to be in our coven.
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Oscar and Ren stayed behind but were going to head to George’s dorm soon. We got they needed five minutes. They were together before we ever met George and they needed to talk. I didn’t think either of them was going to react badly to George being a god, but they needed to process it together. Oscar just got seriously injured and Ren got fire powers and a new tail.
George wasn’t clingy, but I was. I planned to go after Church because he was being a fuckhead, but I needed to check on my lioness. I knew she eventually intended on telling the coven when the time was right, but not the entire school. Dexter documented every time one of the Krausses got dragged, but he adored George. He wouldn’t post his video without her permission.
But what happened in the dining hall was pretty major. Other students would have filmed it and uploaded it. It was probably all over the internet now. Some of the news outlets probably picked it up because a headmaster getting arrested for trying to disfigure a freshman was pretty big.
I grabbed George and pulled her into a bear hug.
“Are you okay? I know you weren’t ready to take your necklace off.”
“I wasn’t, but Oscar got hurt. Kaylee is terrible in magical combat. She hits the wrong people all the time. Her hex hit her mom, but if anyone else had been in the hall, she just as well could have hexed a student. If Dexter hadn’t been in the hall, Matilda could have gotten hit.
“Lindsay Krauss was going to keep erasing her strikes unless the board forced her hand. She can’t hurt me, but she can hurt people near me. I knew Kaylee was going to be arrested for that potion. I wasn’t sure if her mom was, too.
“It’s not going to be the end of it with them gone. Paris would have taken their place. She’s a complete idiot. She only got in here because of her family but she’s not going to graduate without a headmaster bending the rules about her grades. She hasn’t brewed a successful potion all semester, which is kind of impressive.
“I knew she was going to blame me if they both got arrested because she is going to flunk out without them. Paris would try to take me down with her. She’s just as stupid as Kaylee and Lindsay are. Someone else would have gotten hurt again when she was trying to get to me. Now, she knows she can’t. And it hurt me when I realized some of that potion got on Oscar. It was worth it because I could heal him while Azren and Loki did what needed to be done. I just wish Church wouldn’t have walked away.”
“I’m going to find him and have a ‘come to Bastet’ talk with him. Church isn’t allowed to be stupid about this. The only reason any of us knew you had this big secret was because Church was stalking you over it. Church isn’t allowed to get obsessed with you because your secret tastes good and make this big deal about never pressuring you to tell him what it is, then be a dick over what the secret is.”
“He’s allowed to have his own emotions about it, West.”
“No, he’s not. He’s supposed to be smarter than me. He has really good grades at the Academy of the Profane and I barely graduated high school. I figured it out. Everyone at dinner should have figured it out when they met your mom and aunt. I scraped my ass out of every science class in high school with a very low D that I managed at the last minute by using the fact that I’m sexy to get some extra credit. I mostly graduated high school because I’m hot, George. EvenIknow if you got your mom’s genes instead of your dad’s, you wouldn’t be giving off that much more power than your mom.”
She nuzzled my neck.
“You aren’t allowed to put yourself down when it comes to intelligence, West. High-school grades don’t count. You’re so smart in other ways. You might think it was obvious, but plenty of people have met my mom and it never crossed their minds. I’m talking about several principals and many high-school teachers who thought I was just an unfortunate witch who got their magic early. They never guessed. Plus, a lot of people can’t do what you do with Oscar. I’ll go all god mojo on you if you do that again.”
“That could be kinky,” I said, grabbing her ass. “But I need to go talk to a certain energy vampire to make sure he knows what he’s giving up if he wants to be a dick about this.”
“He’s allowed to be mad, West.”
I kissed her and bounded up to our dorm room. Yeah, Church could be as butthurt as he wanted. But after that many moon orgies and crime scenes, he could at least hear her out. He didn’t even have to sniff a dead body, but he was there.
Church was pacing when I burst into our dorm room. His hair was a hot mess, like he’d been running his fingers through it.
“I thought I was the only one who was pissed.”
“I can’t talk for Baby Drake because he stayed behind to talk to Azren. Oscar and Ren are talking and then they are all headed to her dorm to hear her out. I guessed her secret months ago. You’re the only one too fuck-headed to even let her explain. Church, you’re the one who told us she had a secret. Fuck, man. Youknewshe had one.”
“I wasn’t expecting her to be lying about who she is!”
“She didn’t lie about who she is. She lied about what she is. George is still that girl who laughs too loud and gets nervous before sex because she’s worried we aren’t going to like it. You met three gods before you knew what she was. They aren’t perfect. George is different from them because she’s only been alive eighteen years. She had to go to kindergarten and deal with puberty. George is just like us.”
In more ways than Church could possibly know, but she needed to be the only one to tell him he could teach her how to be an energy vampire. This wasn’t my story. I was just trying to kick Church in the ass so he’d listen.
“But she’s not! Why is she even here? There’s not even a program for gods here. She can’t learn anything. George took a spot from someone who could actually benefit from the program. Did she just feel like slumming it? We aren’t her coven because she’s not a witch. She’s just going to leave us for Azren.”
