Green-Eyed Monster by Elsie Winters

Author:Elsie Winters
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2021-07-05T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 4

*Hyrak*

I’d been in a terrible mood for three days, which wasn’t like me. First, I’d needed to pick up extra shifts at the pub when the naga I work with went into an early molt. That wouldn’t normally have bothered me, but I looked forward to Solandis stopping by to say hello and drop off clippings of extra herbs or whatever else, and I hadn’t gotten to see her when she’d visited her mushroom patch. I’d missed her smile. It was the brightest spot in my day, and I found my thoughts drifting to her every time I had a spare second.

And then, then, she’d brought her date to my pub last night. I had one fleeting second of happiness when I’d stepped into the front room and spotted her, only to come crashing down when I finally noticed the man sitting across from her. My cheeks felt hot when I remembered how embarrassed I’d felt. I’d been trying to flirt with her since we met, and now I felt like a donkey. I guess now I was grateful she hadn’t noticed.

When I’d come back out to find them holding hands, my flare of jealousy had nearly overwhelmed me, and now I wanted nothing more than to be left alone with my disappointment. Still, when I arrived home from class, I couldn’t help looking to see if she was in the backyard. I’m one of those people who just can’t help picking at a wound, I guess. When I didn’t see her back there, I ignored the way my shoulders slumped and decided to go check on her weird little mushroom people.

Solandis had explained over the last month and a half that they were some kind of guardian creatures, but I didn’t see how. They were just little mushroom dudes who peeked at me when they thought I wasn’t looking. Then again, the ferns closest to her mushrooms did seem a little bigger, though that might be my imagination.

I only needed to take a few steps off my back porch to realize I’d made a huge mistake, because I found the woman herself bent over her mushrooms behind one of the ferns, all her curves and round little bottom on full display. She was completely unaware of me as she sang a quiet song to them and checked each one over, and I blushed furiously when I realized my pants were suddenly uncomfortably tight across the groin.

Wanting nothing more than to escape, I tried to duck back into my house without being seen, but luck wasn’t on my side today.

“Hyrak!”

Her face lit up as I froze in my tracks, and she scooped up a basket that I hadn’t noticed on the ground beside her.

“I brought you some produce I thought you might like! I grew it myself,” she said, pulling out artichokes, eggplant, peppers, and carrots as she approached. “Since you can’t grow these sun lovers here with all this shade.”

I eyed the prickly artichokes with grudging interest—grilled artichokes

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