“I fucking hate him!” I nearly scream as I throw the vase of black roses that he sent to me. “I can’t stand how he touches me or his fetid breath against my lips. I just want to fucking kill him!” “I know, Nyx, but you’ve got to wait. You know that isn’t his fate. You aren’t able to kill him. None of us are. We have to wait for the archangel to come.” Persephone tries to calm me. Since gaining my powers, Lucifer has loosened the reins on me. As his mate, I can’t be away from him for too long without feeling the effects. You would think that would make our matebond stronger. You would be wrong. See, with gaining my powers, I also figured out what my wonderful mate had in store for me. And we’ll just say that using me to create a child just so he can kill it with the same blade that he used to kill me so that he can absorb the child’s powers isn’t all that endearing. Problem is, in order to save not only me, but humanity from the fate of Lucifer becoming all powerful,
Hermes and I have made up. I’m one third of the way to getting my mates back. Honestly, I had thought that my apology to him was going to be the trickiest. Turns out, just being honest with him was all that I needed to do. Well, that and a good fucking. Men are simple. I’d be the same way. It was just that I didn’t really know him, I had just freaked the fuck out on him. So, it made trying to fix things harder. And I went on a walk with Alex last night and apologized to him. We also had sex out in the woods. I’m telling you, men are just easier. But now, I have the more difficult apology to get through. I have to apologize to JoJo. For fucking up in the exact same way that I fucked up with her and risking our matebond. Again. Because of how hard this is going to be, I had Hermes and Alex help me. I don’t know a lot about Valhalla, having not been here the entire time they were. What I did know of the castle was the huge room that we are in with its ginormous balc
“Alright. Let’s run through it again,” I say to Freya. I’d already gotten a new pot of dirt and a seed pushed inside of it for the Earth challenge. The hose to fill the pool, a pot of matured white-tufted dandelions, charcoal bricks, and an ingot of ore wait outside the door for each of their turns to be manipulated and changed. “Are you fucking serious, Nate? We’ve done it four times already!” she whines. “And we’re gonna do it a fifth. Let’s go. Earth, Water, Wind, Fire, and Metal. In that order,” I tell her. She just stares at me incredulously, like I’m not speaking English. “Frey, you have to be able to use all of these spells on command, whatever order they say, whenever they say it. You have a start date for your trial, but that doesn’t mean that they plan on having you do them all at once. It could be back to back to back or there could be days in between. They could have you working with training the acolytes and then have you do all five trails at one time.
After the bout of morning sickness, I was hit with a wave of exhaustion so deep that I could barely keep my eyes open. Lucifer was extremely concerned, but Persephone said that it was normal, especially in the first few weeks of pregnancy. Being pregnant as a goddess is different, faster, than the pregnancy of a human. Instead of being pregnant for 9 months, the baby will take less than half that time. That means that in four short months, this demon child of Lucifer’s, this child that spells out not just my death, but the death of life as we know it, will be born. It puts a definite timeline on when my friends, my family, and my true mate have to get their shit together and kill this asshole. And for Nathan to kill me. I feel bad for the child that is growing inside of me. It never stood a chance. Lucifer has always been planning to kill it to gain its power. I never wanted it. And the world needs it dead no matter what. If I didn’t know what horrible potential it holds t
Waking up this morning, I hadn’t realized what a momentous day that this would be. I mean, I knew that it would be the start of my High Priestess trials. I had a fair idea that the trials would all take place fairly quickly since we’re at war with the biggest, baddest evil out there. I had even prepared for the fact that I would probably be doing all of them today. Nate had prepared me for that really well. Nate… Maiden’s keys, that male has me wrapped around his little finger. It’s like I can’t get enough of him, and he surely hasn’t been able to get enough of me. He brought me back to his rooms last night after I had recovered from all of the trials he had me complete and basically worshiped my body. It was like he couldn’t get enough. Thank Selene that I can’t get pregnant, since we aren’t mates. I was woken by an incessant mental poke for someone trying to mindlink me. For it to wake me up like this, it has to be from either a family member or an alpha wolf. And by t
I feel like I’m experiencing deja vu from when Nyx was first taken. Here Nathan is again, refusing to leave the coven library as he tries to find a way to get Nyx back again. When Freya came back and told Nathan that she had seen Nyx on the Astral Plane, it was like he had been hit by a brick. His face was ashen and he sank to his knees right there in the ceremony room. But when Freya told him that he would still have to kill Nyx and that Nyx had enabled her Freya and Nathan to have a pup…it damn near broke him. It watched my pup, a strong, stubborn, brave male, curl into himself and break down in sobs that were so heartrending that everyone around us felt his pain. I think that Nathan had pushed away all thoughts of Nyx out of necessity. He knew that the next time that he saw her, he’d have to kill her. So, he allowed himself to be caught up in Freya. Nothing that I wouldn’t expect, given what’s been going on between them. And I think that he truly cares about Freya and wa
I’ve just returned to the rooms that I share with Thor in Valhalla from checking on my subjects within my realm when I’m grabbed around the waist by a pair of strongly muscled arms. “Fuck!” I scream, startled by Thor’s knowing where I would turn up. I don’t know how he does it, but he seems to know every time where I will teleport back to. Thor’s mouth immediately latches onto my neck, sucking hard at my skin. “Mmmmm, that’s exactly what I was thinking.” His cock is already hardening against my ass and I moan as I turn my head to capture his mouth with mine. “You’re insatiable,” I whisper when we break apart and his hands reach up to knead my breasts. “We fucked before I left.” “And we’re going to fuck again. At least twice,” he says, pulling the sleeve of my tunic off of my shoulder so that he can kiss my bare shoulder. “When there’s no war to fight, I need to get my energy out a different way. And you’re the lucky recipient of that energy.” Thor spins me around and
I didn’t spend the night with Hermes, Alex, and JoJo that night, no matter how much I wanted to. JoJo had told me that I wasn’t ready. She said that I needed to be prepared to mark everyone of my mates and when she asked me about that…I hesitated. Believe me, I’ve been beating myself up about it ever since. Why did I hesitate? Fuck if I know. Honestly, I think it’s because I know Alex and JoJo really well, but I don’t really know Hermes. And it’s hard to let yourself to be mated to someone that you don’t really know for the rest of your life. Ok, don’t get on my case. I know that lots of wolves do it. But the thing is, my other mates, both Alex and JoJo…well, I’ve known them all my life. Alex is my adoptive brother and JoJo has been a friend since we were in diapers. I’ve gotten over my issues about mating Hermes, I swear I have. And I want him. I just wasn’t ready. My mates seem to understand, though. They’ve been great about making sure that we spend tons of ti