Page 37 of The Gods Veiling
A grunt falls from my lips as my body is knocked fully into Mellcom. I jump back so fast, Havar has to catch me around my waist before I send us both tumbling out of the carriage door.
“Ah, I see. Had to fuck the first god you came across, huh, sweet T?” Jeremiah’s words drip with jealousy.
I want to cuss him out for everything he’s worth, but the anger in his eyes makes me pause. I let a sultry little grin cross my face.
“It was the bestfiveminutes of my life. The stars still dancing in front of my eyes are dizzying.”
His face turns bright red.
Every time he’s accused me of being a whore after our breakup, or all the times he’s made it seem like I was the realm’s worst partner he had, I made sure to hit him back with the fact he always came in less than three minutes.
It was a gut punch to his ego. Especially if I pushed back in front of people. My little comment has him seething.
Too fucking bad. He shouldn’t have tried to hit me so low and make me look bad in front of the first god we’ve met.
Like the good sport he is—apparently—Havar just chuckles. “Everyone in their seats. Take-off is always a little bumpy.”
I shoot Mellcom and Jeremiah a wink as I stroll over to my seat, then plop down and sigh. Lambrit shakes his head with a smirk playing on his lips as their stomping shakes the entire carriage.
I have to hold in my urge to snort in their faces. It’s mental how they can treat me like I’m overreacting for what they’ve done, but they’re about to break a goddess’s creation in their anger at my fake sex.
Assholes.
I ignore the growing tension as the carriage starts to roll backward. My breathing stalls in my lungs and I gradually drift closer to my window when the trees start to blur by in a mirage of green.
“Hold on,” Havar warns, and I glance at his knuckles turning white with how tightly he’s holding his armrest.
My spine attempts to become one with the seat as my stomach bottoms out. It’s as if everything moves in slow motion when the green of the forest fades to blue. The sky seems endless for a breath of time.
Then we plummet.
I swallow down the scream that’s trying to tear out of my chest. My fingernails dig into the luxurious leather, and I cuss the goddess who made it so fine I can barely get a grip.
“Seismet, what the hell are you doing?”
My shriek’s answered with a rumbling laugh. The scream I was holding back finally breaks free as we suddenly swoop up and waves cascade over the side of the carriage.
The thud of my heart pounding in my ears muffles the sounds of the men’s panting. My stomach crawls back into its rightful place and I have to hold back its attempt to empty the contents swooshing inside.
“What the fuck was that?” Garish barks.
My breath rushes out of me. “Holy shit. Look.”
Thankfully, Lambrit’s the fastest to get out of his seat. He blocks my back as all four of the men cram around me to stare out the window.
The white of the clouds comes and goes in waves. One second, it’s so thick, that’s all you see. The next, it clears away like morning fog, leaving a breathtaking view of the mountain.
It’s so massive, there are flatlands scattered about it. They’re inhabitable for beings, that’s for sure, but the grass, rock formations, and caves would create a serene home for wildlife.
Greenery flourishes everywhere my gaze travels. Thriving trees decorate the slope in all sizes, colors, and species. I’ve already spotted a number of kinds we had back in Oddian just on this one side of the mountain.
Streams even flow throughout the forest. Just as I go to ask where the water is coming from, another gasp falls from my mouth. My fingers lie against my lips as I take in what’s in front of me.
A rushing waterfall seems to pour straight from the stars and continues to travel both down and up farther than I can follow. There’s a rainbow of color dancing across the spray of water. The hues make the background of green surrounding it pop even more.
If the carriage didn’t have whatever it does that’s blocking the sound, I’m positive the roar of that water would be thunderous.
I’ve never seen something so beautiful, yet deadly in my entire life.
