Goddess Ascending by Heather Hildenbrand

Author:Heather Hildenbrand [Hildenbrand, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Urban Fantasy Romance
Published: 2019-01-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Two more bubble baths and one good night’s sleep later, I finally feel like me again. Iynx steers clear of me, and there’s no more pink lemonade. Only water and the best food I’ve ever eaten. Kol delivers it to my guest house on a silver tray and then retrieves it when I’m done. He doesn’t say anything about my sex-ade trip, and I don’t bring up our kiss.

I dress in my leggings and tunic, which are freshly washed and sitting out on the dresser when I emerge from the bathroom. Having them back feels important like I’m expected to do something today. Which is good. My impatience has become a second skin.

I scarf down the fruit and juice on the tray Kol left then wander outside in search of him.

He’s in the backyard, building some sort of sculpture with tin cans and piles of firewood.

“Are we having a bonfire?” I ask.

He looks up, and his eyes do a quick scan of my body that leaves me tingling.

“Something like that,” he murmurs.

“Okay, before we go any further, I think we need to establish a few ground rules.”

“Like what?”

“First, no more veil jumping. I can still feel my organs moving when I walk, and it’s weird.”

His lips twitch. “Your organs aren’t moving. It’s just the vertigo.”

“Vertigo is dizziness. I’m not dizzy, I just—”

I wobble, and Kol grabs my elbow, steering me back onto the path before I can veer and fall.

“Fine, I’m a little dizzy,” I grumble.

Kol turns away but not before I see him smile.

I glare and wrench my arm out of his grasp. “This only proves my point.”

“Okay. No more veil jumping,” he says.

“Second, I get to know all the things.”

“What does that even mean?”

“It means you should have told me what Iynx can do. I thought I made it clear before, but just in case, I will not follow you around like a lost puppy. You tell me what’s happening and what I’m walking into, or this won’t work. Deal?”

A muscle in his jaw works back and forth. Finally, he says, “Deal.”

“What are we even doing out here other than hiding?”

“Training,” he says, gesturing to the cans.

“You want me to compete in an eating contest involving non-perishables?”

“No, I want you to shoot them.”

“Shoot them,” I repeat, my confusion growing. “With what?”

“Your magic.”

I cut him a look, brows raised. “I don’t—”

“Like you shot me,” he adds, and understanding dawns.

“That weird flash of light in my kitchen.”

He nods. “It stopped me in my tracks.”

“But I don’t know how I did it,” I argue. “Or what it was. That was the first time anything like that’s ever happened.”

“Today will be the second,” he says, undeterred.

“And you want me to shoot hot sparks here? In the desert?” I ask. “Did our walk yesterday not teach you about the lovely effects of heat exhaustion?”

“Training in extreme temperatures makes you a better fighter.”

“Like whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger?” I ask.

He shrugs. “You’re the one who told me you never sunburn. And you handled our walk here without food or water better than any human would have.

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