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"Ha!" she exclaimed enthusiastically. "I like that girl!"
"I told you that, Kate," Stephan said with amusement and winked at me.
Had our ice-cold butler winked at me, and the Goddess of Magic claimed she liked me?
Coughing, I choked on the morsel I had just speared and gulped down in my triumph over Tanael. Zuri relieved me of the choking attack with a mighty blow to my back.
As a precaution, I put the bacon on my plate to one side, turned my attention to the pancakes instead, and sipped the delicious green tea that Stephan had prepared for me during my coughing fit.
"Then you'll be pleased to know that you'll be looking for her fiancé with Myrina," my host turned to the Goddess of Magic. The smile he gave me was cruel and icy cold.
"You know I'm not your messenger, Luze." Her eyes pierced the fallen angel she called by the name he hadn't offered me. "Take her there yourself!" Without paying him any further attention, the goddess topped herself a toast with scrambled eggs and bacon.
"But she doesn't want that. It was her decision that you should accompany her," her neighbor at the table grumbled back.
"Then use your charm to convince her to let you take her there. It shouldn't be that hard for you." Hecate glared at him.
"She's sitting here at the table and can hear everything!" I roared. "And she certainly won't fall for his charms. I'd prefer the company of a skunk."
Tanael huffed indignantly, and Zuri, next to me, giggled furtively into her napkin.
Hecate, however, grinned a devilish grin. "I can happily turn him into a skunk for you."
As tempting as this offer seemed to me, I didn't want to take the chance of having to take a raging skunk with me to the part of the underworld where the dead lived.
"I'll be happy to take you up on your generous offer another time," I replied calmly, paying no attention to the man, who had turned fiery red. He didn't like it at all. After all, he was used to calling the shots and having everyone follow him.
Not with me! I had finally been freed from such chains and would certainly not let myself be put in them again—not even by a god. I knew by now how much my own will and decisions were worth to me, and I wouldn't give all that up without a fight.
"Hecate, Aza told me you are the most powerful person in this house." Well, that was a bit of an exaggeration. But if there was one thing I had learned from Mr. Baldur, it was that gods had big egos. Perhaps the same applied to goddesses.
The mage in question tilted her head.
"For one thing, I would like a goddess who knows the path and the dangers well to accompany me. Secondly, I would be very happy to get to know you better. I still have a lot ahead of me, and it's always good to have someone with power at my side."
I looked into her silver eyes unabashedly and without fear.
"I know what you're doing. I respect your courage, girl," the goddess said slowly, letting me feel her power and the danger that came with it. She penetrated my body and senses like a waft of ice-cold mist, and a chill came over me. I had to be careful not to make her my enemy.
"Just be careful not to get carried away. It could cost you dearly," she warned me, her eyes narrowing.
A familiar warmth enveloped me and displaced the coldness of Hecate, whose gaze shot directly to Tanael, who was silently eating his fruit.
A cold smile twitched on her lips.
"All right, girl. I'll accompany you. We leave in an hour." She disappeared unexpectedly, and Aza looked across the table at me with wide eyes as if I had dug my own grave.
CHAPTER 7
With a lump in my throat, I left the kitchen a little later with a thoughtful Aza. I still didn't know what to make of these supernatural beings. Could I trust them? Even though they worked for Tanael?
Hecate was not a being who let herself be told what to do. She had clearly shown that with her behavior in relation to the devil.
Zuri, on the other hand, seemed to be a gentle soul. But if she had to choose, whose side would she take?
I found Stephan just as confusing here as I did in my own world. I couldn't assess him at all. The twinkle in his eye, in particular, had thrown me completely off my game.
I was convinced from the bottom of my heart that Aza would always stand by my side. She was the Angel of Feminism and had been banished because of her ideals. Apparently, she was braver than I had expected her to be.
