Firefox: a Fox Demon's Claim by Lizzie Lynn Lee

Author:Lizzie Lynn Lee [Lee, Lizzie Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-05-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Though he was disappointed that Chloe hadn't accepted him yet, Sparrow admired that fact, too. The more he thought about what he had expected from his goddess, the more he realized it wouldn't have been right had she just agreed with everything he’d said.

Gaia was headstrong, independent, and capable. Of course she wasn't going to take his word for anything. Not even after he'd shown his true self to her and had let her see his power.

His goddess had to make decisions in her own time, and Sparrow would accept that. He was confident that if he merely gave her that time, she would come to realize the truth and happily welcome him into her arms as her consort.

He did hope it didn't take much longer, because two nights of sleeping with her body pressed against his had been hard enough. Much more of this and he might lose his mind. It was so difficult to hold her and do nothing more when his entire body ached to be one with hers.

But he was hers, no matter what. If he had to hold her while she slept every night for many more days, then that's what's Sparrow would do.

She hadn't been gone more than an hour or so when he started wondering how he might best please her while they remained here. He was working out how to go about this when he realized something was very wrong.

They hadn't consummated their joining yet, but they bonded. And wave after wave of fear, disgust, and despair begin crashing into Sparrow through the bond they already had with each other. He didn't know what had happened to cause his goddess to feel this way, but it didn't matter. Sparrow closed his eyes and reached out for her, and in a matter of moments he stood before her in a tiny stall that smelled of bleach and flowers.

Chloe sat on the closed toilet lid, her feet up and her arms wrapped around her legs. Her forehead rested on her knees while she sobbed quietly.

“Gaia?”

Chloe shouted and flinched, her head snapping up. “What the—how did you get in here? Did…did you follow me to work?”

Through all her shocked, angry questions, the tears didn’t stop.

“I felt your pain, and so I came to help you.” Sparrow cupped her cheeks with his hands, wiping the tears away with his thumbs. “What is wrong?”

Chloe shook her head and squeezed her eyes shut, another sob escaping her throat. “It doesn't matter. But I have to gather up my things and leave, right away. I'm going to have to change my name again, find a new job, new friends…no, no friends this time, that might be how he found me to start with. I can't trust anybody next time.”

She let go of her legs and stood, forcing Sparrow to step sideways to give her room in the cramped space. “I can't be here right now. I have to go home and—”

“Wait. Gaia, first you need to calm down.”

“Do not tell me to calm down! I've been calm for a while, and it was a mistake.

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