Page 49 of The Goddess is Fierce
“Blood lust makes you want to bite and fuck. Until you learn how to bite, think about fucking.”
I immediately pictured Baldur naked hovering over me and ready to ravage me. Yeah, I usually had a fairly decent attention span and could multitask. Blood lust me was a little different. As soon as I pictured Baldur fucking me, I pictured themallnaked ready to fuck me. And damned if I forgot all about biting Paris and drinking her blood.
As the kinky scene played through my head, the new senses that were bombarding me finally let up and I felt my fangs go away.
“Thanks,” I sighed. “How do you deal with that every day?”
“Because it’s not always like that, silly,” Belladonna said. “That was blood lust. When you aren’t in blood lust, it’s fucking awesome. You’ve got amazing senses and super speed. It’s totally awesome when you’re fucking.”
“Noted. The only person allowed to tell me about my twin’s sex life is my sister, though.”
“Please, I’m not that crass.”
“Thank you. That was honestly a lot.”
“It gets so much better.”
“Now that you did it, can you do it again?” Church asked.
“Well, it was kind of an accident, but maybe?”
“Good. Belladonna and I can teach you from there and catch you up on what you missed last semester in our vampire classes. You’ll figure out shifting and eventually get to bang Baldur. When you do, I want to watch because it’s probably going to be hot. We’ll catch the killer after the dodgeball game and Paris is probably going to flunk out of the Academy of the Profane. This was a good thing.”
I grabbed Church and kissed him.
“Seriously, how did you get to be so perfect?”
I’d never had vampire blood lust before, but I had lost control of my god powers before. There were only a handful of people who could talk me down and I was related to all of them. The fact that Church and Belladonna could meant they were my people because this could have gone seriously wrong.
“My girlfriend is pretty special, so I’ve got goals.”
“Excuse me, but I helped,” Belladonna said.
I started laughing because I knewexactlywhat Belladonna wanted.
“I’ll put in a good word with my sister and Mags, but they’re already super into you. I’m pretty sure they are desperately in love with you at this point. My sister doesn’t argue with someone she hasthatmuch in common with cheerleading wise unless she’s interested.”
I was happy forbothof my siblings and I liked their people. Mina and Belladonna were really good for Matilda and Mags and I adored Michael and Dexter together. I loved my people, too.
The dodgeball game was in two days. I could fixeverythingby ignoring every instinct and passing the fucking ball.
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. . .
Itrusted the Fates, even if they sometimes fucked with me, but I didn’t like a damned thing about the vision they sent Bjorn. All this hinged on my competitive, driven girlfriend passing the ball when shecouldhave scored and won the game for her team. She’d do what she needed to do because that was George, but she might hesitate.
I still didn’t knowhowthe killer was doing any of this. I did know George and I were immune to mortal magic, but not the magic of other gods. We didn’t just need to catch him. We needed to get his bow away and stop him from talking becausehe was dangerous to all of us. Ineededto know what was so important about the arrows.
Thankfully, Freya finally came through the day before the big game. Baldur’s cottage was much roomier than mine, so I texted everyone and we met there so Freya could fill us in.
“Okay, so I tried to find outwhichErotes it was first. Aphrodite said most of them are still on Earth doing their jobs, even if no one worships them anymore. She said most people didn’t pay much attention to them back in their day. Aphrodite added most of them are sensitive kids that just want to spread love. Some of the types of love they represent eventually became illegal and humans started killing people over it.
“They banded their efforts together and started using their arrows on people making the laws to give them a bit more empathy and stop legislating love. She said most of them come back every once in a while because they are all momma’s boys.
“There’s only two she hasn’t seen in a while. Hymenaeus is busy with weddings. Hedylogus always felt underappreciated and hasn’t talked to any of his family in a very long time. She has no idea where either of them is, but sometimes, one of the Erotes bumps into their brother at a wedding. No one has seen Hedylogus since he left.”
I’d been researching all the Erotes, but I barely even remembered reading about Hedylogus. Was he even mentioned more than as a painting on a vase?
