Gods Save the Princess (Grace of Gods Book 2) by Kyleigh Castronaro Read Free Book Online Page A

hand through his hair as he looked around again.
    “Why, what were you thinking?” I probed, sensing he had another purpose to his exploration.
    “Well, I wanted to throw a party so we can all meet each other properly. I was trying to scope out an area to hold it. I thought maybe having a club would work, but clubs are loud and that doesn’t really give us the chance to talk. But they certainly have a lot of booze, and I like that." He grinned mischievously.
    “You can use my garden if you’d like. I’m sure we could conjure enough things to make it a suitable place for a social gathering.” Jed stopped talking and looked down at me in consideration before grinning and nodding.
    "Really? That would be great! I was thinking this place is perfect.”
    “Of course." I smiled politely before diving in with another curious question, "so, when you say, “we”... Do you mean there are other people here?”
    “A few, but no one has ever really met each other so that’s why I thought a party would be good.”
    I smiled, “I like the sounds of that." But how had I managed to miss enough people that a party was necessary? Had I really been that caught up in my garden and with the boy? “When were you thinking of having the party?”
    “Tonight?” He said questioningly.
    I licked my lips and looked around the garden for a moment before nodding, “doable, I think.”
    “If you can handle décor and all that girly stuff I can do food and drinks.” I sensed it would be mostly drinks with him.
    “I can do décor and food for you.” I said with a smile and he smirked at me, a silent conversation occurring between us for a moment before he nodded.
    “Yeah, cool. Perfect. I’ll see you tonight then.” He turned and started to walk away in a hurry. I felt myself panic slightly, not wanting him to go yet. After a week of being alone I had finally found someone else in this place I could talk to and the most I was going to get was a two second conversation about party planning?
    “Jed!” He turned and looked back at me, eyebrow arched.
    “Do you... do you know who your God is?” I said quickly, licking my lips.
    He appeared thoughtful for a moment, mulling over what he was going to say before he tilted his head from side to side in an uncertain way. “Yes and no.”
    I frowned, confused by the answer.
    “I think I do but then I might be wrong.”
    “Oh,” I said, nodding slightly, “I don’t have any clue.”
    “I’m sure it’ll come to you, kiddo. We can brainstorm tonight if you want, round up a list of suspects.” I smiled and nodded at him.
    “Yeah, okay.”
    “Cool. Well, I’ve got to go get ready and let everyone else know about the party.”
    “Okay... How many people should I prepare for?”
    “Maybe a dozen?”
    Twelve people? How had Twelve people slipped under my radar entirely for the last week? I had been desperately searching... Well, at least it felt that way.
    Retrospectively, I had been spending most of my time in the garden or at the boy’s bedside. But still when I was crossing through the hallways I was always thinking about other people and hoping one day I might just walk through a door into a crowded room.
    “Alright, can do.” I said, trying to seem unfazed as Jed grinned at me one more time as he turned and left me alone again.
    I cast one more look around the garden for a moment before walking out the door after Jed. Except, the door took me back to my apartment and didn’t give me a chance to pursue him.
    I sat down at my kitchen table, quickly drawing up a rudimentary scheme of how I wanted the garden to look tonight. I imagined fairy lights strung over the patio, cast iron tea tables, bunting, a stone table for food displays. I wanted cupcakes, candy, little finger foods like mini hamburgers and mini hot dogs.
    I ended up getting somewhat carried away at the idea of the party and when I was done I had a four page spread of my terrible sketching of the party space. I