Page 7 of The Goddess is Fierce
Gabriel never did. And I could hear some of his students in the hallway complaining about it. He was going to make an incredible headmaster, but I was pretty sure he was here to kick me off campus and fire me.
“Azren texted me. Hi, Sol. Or I guess I should call you Baldur now. Congrats on getting your answers. It must be a relief. I’m going to be moving you from the staff cabin you’re staying in to one of the ones we had back in the day when entire families worked here. There are more bedrooms than the one you’re in. Odin can take one and Freya can take the other if she likes. They can see about jogging some memories while we wait for Huginn and Muninn to get the message.”
“Shouldn’t you be banning me from campus? It could be me.”
Gabriel just smirked at me.
“Icoulduntil we know more, but we’ve got your daddy and a war goddess here to stop you and they’ve both known you since you were a baby. I’m guessing they know any tricks you might pull during a blackout to stop you if it’s you who’s doing this. Besides, if it’s a god we don’t know about, I need as many of you on campus as I can. They don’t seem afraid of Azren like every other god I’ve heard about, but Azren can’t be everywhere at once and they know that.
“If they decide to be ballsy with this many gods on campus, we might be able to catch them. Besides, Azren warned all the students what to look out for from what we know about their victims. We’ll probably get a heads up and if Muninn is here, we might be able to get the memories back of the potential victim and protect them before they can get murdered. You need to be with your family and my kids need to be in bed because both of them are really shitty about getting up early and that’s not fair to Mags.”
Even with everything going on, I smiled to myself when George and Matilda sulked when their daddy told them to go to bed. George was a god, and I knew Matilda was getting a reputation for beating everyone’s asses in magical combat. It was adorable, the two strongest supernaturals at the Academy of the Profane just got sent to bed by their dad.
And, apparently, I was going to have to get used to being roommates with my very powerful father until I got my memories back.
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This was so fucking stupid. I wanted to be with my hive. I knew damned well it wasmethat was being an idiot, too. I couldn’t even go for a walk to clear my head because Bethany was pissed at me again and getting nut punched hurt. I was alone in my dorm room trying to find something to watch while they were all out with my girlfriend.
I knew she had a big secret. It tastedamazingand gave me this huge power boost when I was near her. It shouldn’t have even been a huge shocker that she was a god. She felt like a witch until she took her necklace off, but she also gave off the same kind of power as her dad and Azren did, which witchesdidn’tdo.
I gave up trying to find something to watch and tried to go to sleep. I wasdyingto know what she needed them for and I was killing myself inside that I couldn’t watch her with Azren just yet and be there with them.
I couldn’t sleep either. I was still trying when my roommates got home. They were all pissed at me and tried to ‘intervention’ meagainso I couldn’t exactly ask what went down without being an even bigger asshole than I already was.
I felt a pillow smack me in the face pretty hard. It smelled like West’s expensive hair products.
“I know you’re faking, dildo face.”
Ah, fuck. He gave me that nickname during our first moon orgy with George. He called me that on purpose.
“I’m an eighteen-year-old energy vampire. We’re allowed five minutes to be stupid and dramatic over a girl.”
“We know vampires tend to get dramatic and stupid, but not this time,” Ren said. “Not over that particular girl.”
Before I could even say anything, I was surrounded by purple smoke and the scent of lavender and marshmallows. I felt this really hard yank and the next thing I knew, I wasn’t in my bed anymore. When I looked around, I was at our moon orgy spot and George was standing there in these adorable pajamas that shouldn’t be sexy.
She waved her hand and a thick blanket and pillows appeared on the ground. She saw me shiver since it was still cold outside and I was just in sweatpants and no shirt. George gave me an appraising glance and then conjured me a coat. When I joined her on the blanket, a steaming mug of hot chocolate appeared in my hands. That was a pretty handy trick.
“Sorry, I couldn’t sleep without talking to you. I hate that you’re mad at me. I need to explain why I lied.”
George told me about the necklace and that the other gods could have hurt her when she was younger. She said they stillmight because of the magic she was born with. I wasn’t mad she lied about being a god. I’d known she had a big fat juicy secret as soon as I walked into the same room as her on the first day of class.
“George, I’ve always known you had a secret and I’m not upset because of what you are. We’re not really your coven, are we? Gods don’t do that. Most of the gods we study about in school marry other gods and are monogamous.”
Thatwas what I was upset about. I was petrified we were all just some stupid college fling and when we all graduated, she was just going to ghost us to fuck off with Azren. Drake and I were both rare and powerful supernaturals. Most supernaturals would have loved to collect us for their group, but I couldn’t compete with the God of Death.
George just shrugged
“Yeah, some gods marry other gods and act like monogamy is the only way, but they are also serial cheaters. Every god is different. Lilith has been devoted to Samael for millennia, but my dad and my uncle joined my mom’s coven. Gods might not do covens like witches, but IthoughtI was in West’s pride, Oscar’s coven, andyourhive. Unless you’ve changed your mind about having me.”
“Fuck no. But wouldn’t you rather be monogamous with the god everyone fears?”
“No, and Azren doesn’t expect me to either. My dad and my uncle love being a part of my mom and aunt’s covens. I adore the shit out of my big family. I grew up having five dads around and that’s the kind of family I want. I don’t particularly want it with a group of gods when I already have it with all of you.”
Yeah, vampires could be stupid and dramatic, but I’d already done that. I seriously didn’t need her to kiss my ass and beg to be in my hive. Iwantedher there. My mind was settled.
