Spirited by Fox Nicole

Author:Fox, Nicole [Fox, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2020-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Over the next week, Tatum saw very little of Keir as the Temple prepared for their wedding. Before Chan released the sun, seamstresses yanked her from her bed for daily fittings of daily clothes, undergarments, and a sheer gown for her wedding. They hissed when she asked for wool to protect her if the air was cool at night. A muse arrived to teach her proper etiquette and phrases not to enrage, encourage, or tease another god or goddess. Afterwards, the chefs arrived to plan menus for a pre-wedding banquet, a morning breakfast, the wedding feast, and morning-after breakfast. Tatum’s eyebrows rose when she was informed that she needed to select meals for three days during her confinement with the Lord. Rolling her eyes, Tatum insisted to see her Lord.

Calmly, she sat in a blue cushioned chair as Keir sauntered into her sitting room. Tight black leather pants rippled around his strong legs. A loose white tunic hung across his torso revealing a few dark strands of hair.

“You ordered my presence,” he inquired gently.

“No, I requested that you join me at your earliest convenience.”

“Here I am in all of my glory.”

“With all of your personality.”

“You love it.”

“If you say so. Anyway, what is a three day confinement?”

Keir smiled brightly at an amorous thought of their planned three day confinement.

“Well, Lovey, you aren’t a goddess. So, you drink goblets of ambrosia for three days in seclusion with me. We consummate our marriage, drink a few goblets of ambrosia, chat, read, make love… swim, and after three marvelous days, Father will make sure that you’re a demi-goddess, and you can roam around Oceanus without being harmed by anyone, or my enemies.”

Tatum arched a dark eyebrow.

“What enemies?”

“I’m the God of Darkness, Tatum. I maintain evil on Oceanus. I have made deals, treaties, and bargains with people. Do I like it? Not really. Can I change it? No, I don’t like this. It’s who I am. You agreed to marry me, evil and all. We have discussed this before, at length.”

Tatum rose from her chair to rush over him, “I’m not dropping out of our marriage. I’m trying to understand three days of confinement. I thought I had to be tied, or hung from a tree, nothing is explained. I know and accept your duties on Oceanus. I’m supposed to keep you with a sense of humanity. Steer you away from committing travesty. Be your guide.”

Keir caressed her face softly. “It won’t be easy. “

“The Trials were.”

“I don’t want to be my Uncle. Yet, I need to be strong and bear my duties.”

Tatum placed her head on his chest. “No, you’re not alone.”

“You sure melted quickly.”

“Maybe, I’m still melting. You showed me the layers under your own skin.”

“See, I’m not too smelly.”

“I need to go.”

“Until the morning.”

~~~

“You promised that I would be his wife, Silke," Maya mumbled softly. “Yet, that girl becomes his wife in the morning. Everyone is fawning all over her. My glory, mine. It belongs to her, not me.”

Silke viewed Maya with indifference.

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