Excerpt Releasing The Gods (The Titan’s Saga #1) by Jaymin Eve & Leia Stone
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He ignored me, choosing to look around my tiny house instead. “This is where you live?” he asked, unable to hide the grimace from his face. “How have you survived? I see no servants. No…”
I snorted, cutting him off. “Yeah, in my world I’m the servant, big man.”
His expression was unreadable as he stared at me again. “Servant and prostitute. Quite the combination there.”
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“This is a judgement free zone, asshole,” I told him crossing my arms. “I don’t judge you on the fact that you’ve spent … did you say two thousand years in a cave, and you don’t judge me for being a tiny bit shallow and without any real life skills.” Narrowing my eyes, I was the one to step closer now. “Deal?”
“No,” he said immediately.
Throwing my hands in the air, I spun and stormed toward the bathroom. Or tried to at least. Our bond slapped me in the face, and since he didn’t move with me, I was basically just lifting my legs and not going anywhere. “I need to shower,” I snapped at him.
His gaze turned contemplative, and then he nodded. “Right, cleaning yourself is important. Humans are such primitive, dirty beings.”
At this stage I was beyond being offended by him, and I decided to just fuck with him a bit. “For sure, big man. Can you sit outside the door so I don’t feel like I’m being torn into two.”
He nodded, as if he was acknowledging this and agreeing.
The moment I got inside, I shut and locked the door, not that my flimsy little lock would keep him out if he decided to come in, but it made me feel better.
Stripping off my clothes, I turned the shower on as hot as it went, and as I stepped in, I felt a tugging on my body–we were clearly right at the end of the distance, but I wasn’t writhing in pain, so it was working.
Grabbing my body wash, I started to lather my skin, washing off the sand, blood, and dirt from my beach and cliff falling experience, and as I did most nights I showered, I sang as loud as I could.
My song choice this time though, was purely designed to annoy the big dude, so I started with spice girls.
By the time I moved on to my hair, I was in the middle of a full on concert, mixing it up between Spice Up Your Life and Wannabe. I jumped when a heavy hand slammed against the door.
“What the hell is happening in there, human?”
Snorting under my breath, I didn’t even want to acknowledge why he continued to call me human. Somehow, and I really didn’t know how, I had some sort of mythological creature attached to me. One that was at least a thousand years old, lived in a cave, and was the tallest person I’d ever seen.
What the hell was he? A vampire? A demon? A gladiator with an attitude problem?
I wracked my brain for any other fantasy stories I knew, but came up blank. I had a secret obsession with indie stories because you never knew what you were going to get, but I stuck mostly with sports and high school romance. I lived for the drama. Sure as shit tonight, though, I was checking myself out some Viking fantasy.
“Are you a Viking?” I shouted, rinsing off the last of my soap, still humming loudly.
There was no reply, and if wasn’t for the tugging sensation on my body still, I might have thought he’d disappeared.
Turning the water off, I climbed out and wrapped a towel around myself, before brushing my teeth at the sink and then strolling over to open the door. Pulling it open, I gasped as I came face to face–okay, face to chest–with the dude. He had the fiercest, most pissed off look on his too gorgeous face, and I was trying to figure out what it was this time.
“If I could kill you, human, I would,” he said from between gritted teeth.
“What? What did I do now?”
He stepped into my personal space and I was suddenly very aware of the skimpy towel I wore. The only thing I wore.
“Your singing was the worst thing I have ever heard. And I’ve tortured people as a job.”
I gulped. “Well, that doesn’t sound like something you should put on your resume.”
He paused. “You are very odd, even for a human.”
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