“Did you now?” I asked as I climbed up the bed and straddled him.
Thor's eyes began to glow as his manhood rose against me. His hands spread over my hips; they were large enough to cover my sides completely. He gripped me tightly and pulled me forward as I reached between us and set him into position. We both groaned as he slid inside me.
“Do you want to hear how I seduced human women?” Thor asked as his hands moved up to my breasts. “How I'd catch them alone in the forest and lay them in the grass.”
“You'd chase women in the forest?” I teased him.
“They knew I was their god.” He flicked my nipples playfully. “They'd beg me to take them. They all wanted to bear a child by the mighty Thor.”
“Arrogant much?” I ground against him, and he groaned.
“You know that's merely the truth,” he murmured.
“So, they seduced you,” I surmised. “I remember how you were when we first started dating; your idea of seducing a woman was telling her that you want her. Now, it all makes sense.”
“That's not true,” Thor chided me as he rolled me over. He lifted my legs back so we both had the perfect view of him entering me. “My idea of seduction is showing a woman my fine cock and asking her what she'd like to do with it.”
I burst out laughing—which wasn't unusual for one of our love sessions—and Thor smiled down adoringly at me before settling his body over mine.
“Enough talk about other women,” he said softly. “Once I touched you, I knew no other woman could satisfy me.”
“Once you touched me?” I lifted a brow as I slid my hands over his ass and pulled him closer. “Or once I touched you?”
Thor chuckled as he sheathed himself as deep as he could go. “You know me so well, Wife.”
“And you know me,” I whispered as I wrapped my legs around his waist. “You know exactly what I like. So, why don't you show me?”
As Thor drove into me faster, and ecstasy loomed within our reach, I let my love for him rise up and consume me; pushing away thoughts of other men just as he had denied thoughts of other women. It was only us in that bed, and I was frightened of it being any other way.
A memory of numerous hands on my skin flashed through my mind. It ricocheted me up into my climax even as it sent a chill of terror through my bones. I gripped my husband's shoulders tightly; as if I could keep him with me by my will alone. But even as I held Thor, I could feel the wrongness of it.
Chapter Ten
We didn't confront Odin about what had happened; there was no point. It had been an accident, and Thor was already over it. To him, Odin was just his father; the thought of Odin coveting me was inconceivable. And I wanted to keep it that way. In fact, I didn't speak to the God Squad at all after I left our bedroom; I just went straight to the tracing room and left Thor to deal with the teasing. We had been gone for over an hour; there would be a lot of teasing; mainly from Pan.
“I love you, Vervain,” Thor said before I left.
“I love you too.” I kissed him goodbye before heading to the tracing chamber.
The chant Demeter had given me took me straight to her territory. I stepped out of the Aether and into a small building; open on all sides and bordered by Greek columns. I stared out across an expanse of grass dotted with Greek statuary. On a rise before me, there was a Greek temple—Demeter was definitely keeping with the theme—and I could hear the crashing of waves coming from all around me. I had to be on an island, but the rise of land prevented me from catching a glimpse of the water. I started walking toward the temple.
When I crested the hill, I was able to see the edges of the island; it was all cliffs with no beach. Kind of a waste of an island, in my opinion. I wandered into the temple—the biggest building there—and found it empty. It was another open, Greek-style structure with a small enclosure in its center. That enclosure didn't look big enough to be considered housing; especially not for a goddess. As I stared thoughtfully at its door, it opened, and Demeter stepped out.
“Come along, Godhunter,” Demeter said as she strode by me. “I've been able to acquire another ally for our endeavor.”
“You live in there?” I asked as I hurried after her.
“In that room?” She lifted a brow at me. “No, of course not; my home is beneath the island. But we don't have time for a tour; you can see it some other time.”
A vision of a vast subterranean chamber rose in my mind; gardens of all types set out in rows beneath a vine-covered ceiling. A massive Greek palace stood in its center, but I knew that there were hidden rooms within the walls and hidden slaves within a prison set among the gardens. I inhaled in surprise as a woman's tear-soaked face rose in my mind.
“Emma,” I whispered.
“What did you say?” Demeter turned on me with wide, horrified eyes.
“Uh; I asked 'Am I?” I lied. “As in; Am I going to have time to return?”
“Oh.” Demeter frowned. “Probably not today. Do you really want to see my home so badly?”
“No; it's fine. I was just talking to myself.”
“You're a strange woman,” Demeter said as we strode back to the little building that must be her tracing chamber. “Try not to behave so oddly with Niyarvirezi.”
“Niyarvirezi?” I asked.
“She's an African lion goddess,” Demeter
