Page 48 of The Goddess is Fierce
“It shouldn’t be. A lot of gods have tried to take away free will like that. Some of them tried to program it in when they were making creations and the rest of them tried to do it when they were falling out of fashion with mortals. As far as I know, it’s never been done before. They couldn’t do it with magic. They had to gaslight the fuck out of people and even then, not everyone fell for it. The fact that we have a very drunk angel and his boyfriend in the room with us is a prime example.”
Michael grabbed Dexter and kissed him.
“Lucifer will tell you he regrets nothing.”
“The arrow is important,” George said. “My Uncle Bjorn stressed that, but I think it’s important in more ways than we think. This Erotes can shoot two types of arrows. He shot one that didn’t harm Baldur at all and just redirected him. It sent him away. Why does he need the one Drake’s mom had and made that wound in the witch’s necks if he can control people with magic? Why did he hunt Drake’s parents down and murder them to get the arrow back?”
“I actually have nothing. None of this should be possible. I don’t think the Fateswantedgods to mess with free will. This Erotes is breaking the rules somehow,” Azren said.
It actually felt amazing to have my memories and magic because I couldhelpnow.
“I remember Freya now,” I said. “I remember her teaching me Seidr and trying to help me with girls. I have a feeling whenshe gets back, she’s going to be able to tell usexactlywhy that arrow is so important and give us a hint which Erotes it is.”
I had amassivecrush on Freya when I was thirteen, but she let me down easy. The crush turned into a huge amount of respect, even if the romantic feelings left me. She was crafty, brilliant, and powerful.
She could get this information from Aphrodite without losing her as a friend.
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Wow. Baldur was hot without his magic. I kept being drawn to him despite his magic missing. But all that Light God magic was sexy as fuck. We all went home to sleep it off since we had to go to class the next day, even if I really wanted to grab Baldur somewhere and have my wicked way with him.
All those people who shat on him or just pretended he hadn’t existed before had been talking about him all day now that it was pretty fucking clear he was a god. Baldur decided to just go backto work like usual because he enjoyed working with his hands.Allof my classes. The only students who weren’t trying to hop on his dick were the lesbians.
Belladonna and Church were walking me from one of my vampire classes to my shifter classes. I was crabby as fuck. They all treated him like shit and now they were plotting the best way to throw themselves at him. First of all, even if he wasn’tmine,history books said he was married. The only people who knew he was divorced were the people who gave a shit about him before he got his magic back.
Paris had mostly left me alone since our duel in magical combat. I think it had finally got through her head that I was alotstronger than her and if I hadn’t held back in magical combat, I could have obliterated her. Either that, or she finally realized my dad was the headmaster now and if I didn’t fuck her up, he wasn’t going to look the other way with her strikes.
A lot of Kaylee’s old crowd had distanced themselves from Paris after she carried on that old feud because it had literally destroyed Kaylee and Lindsey. I was guessing they didn’t want to get caught in the crossfire of gods and didn’t want to go down with them.
But legacy students tended to congregate together and some of them had flocked back to her side. Belladonna stopped to tie her shoe near Paris and her posse. I wasn’ttryingto eavesdrop, but they were kind of loud. Paris had her hair pulled back and I could tell she had been trying potions to fix what Loki did to it. She haughtily tossed her ponytail over her shoulder.
“Ialwaysthought he was sexy and there was a reason he felt like that. It was probably a test. He was pretending to be like that because he’s looking for a wife. I’m going to be that wife. Ineedmy own god on my side. Which one do you think he is?”
I snarled and lunged at Paris. She didn’t even know his name or what he went through. Paris just wanted him because he wasa god and what he could do for her. I had this overwhelming urge to rip her throat out with my teeth. Belladonna and Church caught me and dragged me back.
“Yeah, she’s terrible. I want to bite her, too, but you just dropped fang and figured out how to tap into the vampire stuff for the first time. You need to figure that shit out or you’re going to take her head clean off by accident and I don’t think you want that,” Belladonna said.
“You look hot as fuck with fangs,” Church grinned.
I touched my teeth. Yup, I definitely had fangs. And I still really wanted to bite Paris and drink her blood. Even though the idea of drinking blood kinda half grossed me out, I really wanted it right now. I could smell it and hear her heart beating.
“Ah, fuck. How do you deal with this shit? I have to get out of here,” I said, grabbing them and portalling them outside.
Fangs were fucking weird. I’d just unlocked a new level to the video game that was my magic. This is what I’d been trying to do, but I’d like to turn it off now. Belladonna grabbed me and looked me in the eye.
“Hey, breathe. It’s intense when it kicks in the first time. A lot of times, it happens because of an emotion. We don’t just turn eighteen and drop fang. We’re different from shifters. We don’t have some animal screaming inside us to get out. Vampires have blood lust, and something has to trigger it for the first time.”
“It’s different for energy vampires, but kind of the same. It’s an emotion. You have to breathe, calm down, and it will go away.”
Yeah, I was trying, but I was just somad.I knew Baldur wouldn’t look twice at her; it was just that she thought she deserved him when she didn’t even know his name.
“Hey, Paris is an idiot,” Belladonna said. “My parents were vampire supremacists, but they thought some of the other famous families were acceptable for what they could do for us.They wanted me to be friends with her. She’s a spoiled princess who thinks the world owes her everything, and she doesn’t have to work for it. Paris is delusional enough to think she can bat her eyes at a god whose name she doesn’t even know and he’s going to fall in love with her. Baldur gives off giant teddy bear vibes, and he’s totally into you, but something tells me now that he remembers who he is and has his magic back, the big guy might bite a little when entitled shits who treated him like shit before comes sniffing around his cock now that he’s got his magic back.”
“He’s a giant, even for a god,” I moaned. “I want him to throw me around the bedroom for a few hours, then snuggle me after. I also want to see him throw Paris through a wall.”
Church started rubbing my shoulders. I’d say this for all the guys I’d caught feelings for at the Academy of the Profane. They all knew how to give massages.
