Green Tea and Black Death (The Godhunter, Book 5) by Amy Sumida Read Free Book Online Page A

“ Like there is only you and I,” I whispered and pulled his face closer, his long, black hair falling around us and blocking out the world. “Forget the others, forget the magic, and just love me…Vervain, not your Tima. Can you love the woman without the guise of a goddess?”
       His eyes brightened, “Both man and beast in me have loved you, before I even knew you vere my Tima. It vas you who called me from my hell, your heart zat spoke to mine ven it couldn't hear. I love you , Vervain, I vill always love you.”
       I held onto him as he showed me how much he loved me, over and over, until I could finally think about facing the world without Trevor.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Eight
     
       “ How is she?” The familiar voice drifted through my dreams, warming me and pulling me away from them.
       “ She’s doing better,” Kirill was in the hall, his voice echoed down to me.
       I groaned as I sat up, dislodging Nick, who was sleeping on my pillow. A kitty technique to calm my head. I scratched his chin as he blinked hopeful green eyes up at me. There was movement from the hall and then my bedroom door was opening.
       “ Tima?” Kirill’s starkly handsome face peered around the door. “Are you up for a visitor?”
       “ Odin’s here?” I don’t know why I didn’t go see him sooner. Maybe it felt like even more of a betrayal to jump into Odin’s bed right after Trevor left. Odin was accepted as my lover but just barely. I guess tolerated would’ve been a better word for it.
       “ I can leave if you need more time, sweetheart,” he called down to me and I couldn’t help smiling.
       “ No, don’t go,” I crawled out of bed, “I’m getting dressed.
       Kirill kissed my forehead as I grabbed a dress and headed to the bathroom to freshen up. After splashing some cool water on my face, I put on the heavy emerald pendant Odin had given me for the second time recently.
       I say second time because he'd originally given it to me back when I was Sabine. Technically Munin, one of Odin's ravens, gave it to me this time but Odin approved of the re-gift. When I commented on the pulse of magic I felt coming from it, he said Sabine knew she'd need it one day. She, I, never used it back then so I figured maybe it would come in handy for me someday soon. It had already showed me some strange visions so I wanted to make sure I was wearing it, just in case.
       When I came out, they were waiting for me in the living room, Nick regarding them warily from an ottoman. I went to give Odin a kiss hello. With Trevor gone I could be freer with him.
       “ I’m so sorry,” he whispered as I sat beside him. “I know how much you love him and I know how much he loves you. He’ll get over this, you’ll see.”
       “ Let’s not talk about it,” I caught Kirill’s worried look out of the corner of my eye and gave him a quick smile. “I have other messes to handle. If Trevor wants to end everything we have because of one drunken kiss, then what can I do?”
       “ I just want you safe and happy,” Odin took my hand. “You know you can always move in with me for awhile, if you need a change of scenery.”
       A low growl was Kirill’s answer to that.
       “ Be calm, lion,” Odin grinned. “You’d be welcome too. I just know how being around things that remind you of an absent lover can be painful. I thought Vervain might want to escape for a bit.”
       “ Thank you,” I kissed his cheek quickly. “I think I will come up for a couple of days but I’m not going to run away from home just because my wolf did. I’ll be fine. I’ve been neglecting things in Chinatown and need to focus on that now. Who knows what that bitch has been up to.”
       “ I’ve actually been keeping an eye out for her,” he confessed with a school boy grin.
       “ Thanks, babe,” I grinned back. “So, anything?”
       “ Not much,” he