18 - Goddess Of The East: Forgotten Gods by Laura Greenwood

Author:Laura Greenwood [Greenwood, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Forgotten Gods#18
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

After our lunch together, and our kiss, it was impossible not to feel a little nervous about Khepri's arrival at my temple this morning. I had no idea what things were going to be like between us, especially when I'd put a stop to things.

Something I hadn't been able to stop thinking about since it had happened. It had been a good kiss, and it had felt like the right culmination of everything that had been passing between the two of us. Yet I'd felt the need to stop it and I couldn't entirely pinpoint why that was, especially when I'd been regretting it ever since.

Footsteps sounded and I turned around to find the god of the morning sun standing in the doorway to my temple, looking even better than he normally did. Or maybe that was just my new perspective.

My heart skipped a beat and the memory of the kiss, ever close to the surface, became the only thing I could possibly think of.

"Khepri." My voice came out as more of a croak, almost with an edge of desperation to it.

"Good morning," he responded, stepping inside. He didn't take off his shirt the way he normally did when he entered and I found myself disappointed. Not because it meant that I wasn't able to look at his chest, though that was a shame, but because it was easy to see that he wasn't as comfortable around me as he once had been.

We probably needed to talk about what happened yesterday, but I wasn't entirely sure where to start. Instead, we just stood staring at one another, with neither of us making the first move.

It wasn't even that I regretted the kiss. If anything, it was because I regretted not letting it go further when that was really what I wanted.

I wasn't sure what made me move, but I headed right to him and wrapped my arms around his neck. His lips were on mine seconds later, as if both of us were controlled by a force far more powerful than us. I kissed him deeply, putting everything I hadn't said yesterday into it.

"Iabet," he whispered against my lips. "Are you sure?"

"Yes." I pulled back slightly so I could meet his gaze. "I've thought about nothing other than you since yesterday. It would be foolish to ignore the way I feel."

"I agree. So long as the way you feel is the same way I do."

"Right now, the only thing I can feel is the desire to forget about the purification ceremony and take you to my room."

"I'm not going to say no to that," he murmured. "We went hundreds of years without doing the purification ceremony. One day isn't going to make a difference. And we can always do it after."

I didn't need telling twice. He was right. There had been centuries where we hadn't done the morning ceremony, it wasn't going to be a disaster for us not to do it today, especially when we had more important things that needed tending to.

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