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before the deadline,” Flare added.
Kenric didn’t know what to say. They continued to talk about getting a call that something was wrong, then all of them heading out here to see what had happened, and Kenric figuring it out and leading them to the natural gas they had been after.
“Those maps were way off. I wonder why?” Flare mused.
“They were probably done by someone who didn’t know what they were doing , ” Shade said.
Kenric stiffened. They didn’t seem to have any idea of what they had discovered earlier. Of anything.
No, they do not. It is best to keep that knowledge to ourselves.
Kenric ignored her and walked away with the men. Much later, when they returned to the compound, there was a celebratory atmosphere. He stood with Shade and Flare, watching Saffron as she talked with some of the other men. They were too far away for him to hear what was said. None of them knew what had happened earlier. How close they had come to disaster. He did. The memory was burned in his mind. He raised his beer to his lips. Saffron said something and left. Kenric put down his bottle and followed.
In the hall, he spotted her heading towards the exit. He moved after her. Outside, he didn’t see her. Instinct made him go left, and moments later he stood behind her. She stood barefoot in the same spot she had the first time she’d sneaked away from the compound. The moon cast her in an ethereal glow, making her beauty radiate even more. The gown she wore left her shoulders bare. The dress flowed around her figure as if raised by some unseen power. Her firm thighs and long legs seemed more delectable than usual. The silhouette of her body made his cock hard. Furious, he strode up to her.
“I should have known the words of a human—about being accepting—would be false.” Saffron sounded cold.
“Don’t pull the martyr shit on me. What the hell are you?” he demanded .
She faced him, raising her head back. Grace, power and arrogance seemed to fill every molecule of her being.
“A goddess.”
Chapter Six
Kenric blinked then blinked again as he ran her words over in his mind. A goddess. Really? Sure, that whole thing with the lion, flower and snake had been weird, but he could reasonably chalk that up to the fumes.
Couldn’t he?
Saffron turned so that her entire body faced him completely. She seemed to glow. Her eyes were what hit him hardest. They were no longer the dark brown pools he’d willingly have drowned in. No. These were liquid, golden fire.
In that second, he realised that he was in more than a bit over his head. She moved towards him, her feet not even touching the ground. When she halted before him, her scent engulfed him, even stronger than before. The waxing moon only added to the aura around her. Golden sprinkled with moonbeams.
“A goddess?” he asked, hearing his own disbelief.
Her lashes lowered briefly before lifting. They looked like they’d been covered in diamond dust.
“Qetesh,” she replied, her expression impersonal, as was her tone.
He had no idea who that was but nodded anyway. “Egyptian, I suppose?”
“Yes.”
I’m officially going insane.
No, you know what you are seeing and hearing to be true.
That familiar and intimate feminine voice he’d heard after she’d saved Shade and Flare slipped through his mind. The anger returned.
“This is what you’ve been keeping from me,” he growled.
“It’s not exactly something I go around telling people.”
“So, you’re a goddess who protects the earth,” he said more for himself than as a question. She seemed to take it that way for she didn’t speak. “What did you do to Frank?”
“He has been banished.” Flames flicked in her eyes.
“Banished, like…to what, inside a rock?”
“You have heard of the Greek stories of Tartarus?”
“Yes, of course.”
“That is the kindergarten version of what I sentenced Frank and his men to.” There was such frost in her words it made him almost
Kenric didn’t know what to say. They continued to talk about getting a call that something was wrong, then all of them heading out here to see what had happened, and Kenric figuring it out and leading them to the natural gas they had been after.
“Those maps were way off. I wonder why?” Flare mused.
“They were probably done by someone who didn’t know what they were doing , ” Shade said.
Kenric stiffened. They didn’t seem to have any idea of what they had discovered earlier. Of anything.
No, they do not. It is best to keep that knowledge to ourselves.
Kenric ignored her and walked away with the men. Much later, when they returned to the compound, there was a celebratory atmosphere. He stood with Shade and Flare, watching Saffron as she talked with some of the other men. They were too far away for him to hear what was said. None of them knew what had happened earlier. How close they had come to disaster. He did. The memory was burned in his mind. He raised his beer to his lips. Saffron said something and left. Kenric put down his bottle and followed.
In the hall, he spotted her heading towards the exit. He moved after her. Outside, he didn’t see her. Instinct made him go left, and moments later he stood behind her. She stood barefoot in the same spot she had the first time she’d sneaked away from the compound. The moon cast her in an ethereal glow, making her beauty radiate even more. The gown she wore left her shoulders bare. The dress flowed around her figure as if raised by some unseen power. Her firm thighs and long legs seemed more delectable than usual. The silhouette of her body made his cock hard. Furious, he strode up to her.
“I should have known the words of a human—about being accepting—would be false.” Saffron sounded cold.
“Don’t pull the martyr shit on me. What the hell are you?” he demanded .
She faced him, raising her head back. Grace, power and arrogance seemed to fill every molecule of her being.
“A goddess.”
Chapter Six
Kenric blinked then blinked again as he ran her words over in his mind. A goddess. Really? Sure, that whole thing with the lion, flower and snake had been weird, but he could reasonably chalk that up to the fumes.
Couldn’t he?
Saffron turned so that her entire body faced him completely. She seemed to glow. Her eyes were what hit him hardest. They were no longer the dark brown pools he’d willingly have drowned in. No. These were liquid, golden fire.
In that second, he realised that he was in more than a bit over his head. She moved towards him, her feet not even touching the ground. When she halted before him, her scent engulfed him, even stronger than before. The waxing moon only added to the aura around her. Golden sprinkled with moonbeams.
“A goddess?” he asked, hearing his own disbelief.
Her lashes lowered briefly before lifting. They looked like they’d been covered in diamond dust.
“Qetesh,” she replied, her expression impersonal, as was her tone.
He had no idea who that was but nodded anyway. “Egyptian, I suppose?”
“Yes.”
I’m officially going insane.
No, you know what you are seeing and hearing to be true.
That familiar and intimate feminine voice he’d heard after she’d saved Shade and Flare slipped through his mind. The anger returned.
“This is what you’ve been keeping from me,” he growled.
“It’s not exactly something I go around telling people.”
“So, you’re a goddess who protects the earth,” he said more for himself than as a question. She seemed to take it that way for she didn’t speak. “What did you do to Frank?”
“He has been banished.” Flames flicked in her eyes.
“Banished, like…to what, inside a rock?”
“You have heard of the Greek stories of Tartarus?”
“Yes, of course.”
“That is the kindergarten version of what I sentenced Frank and his men to.” There was such frost in her words it made him almost
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