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“While you’re thinking on that. What about this: could both the old gods and the newer gods coexist?”
“Huh. That might be slightly easier to answer. Maybe. I think… maybe. I think there would be wars and destruction beyond anything humankind has ever known. But since gods are, by nature, immortal, I imagine they would eventually have to come to some sort of understanding.”
“But not before all that war and destruction?”
“I mean… what god do you know of who doesn’t have a pretty big ego? The whole ‘I am the only one’ kind of thing. That would be tough to overcome for a couple decades. Maybe a couple hundred years. What’s time when you’re immortal, right?” she asked, smiling.
Time in hell was nothing.
It went by in a blink.
Time on the human realm, though?
Each moment could be fucking torture.
“You look like you might need a break,” she said, her voice taking on a bit of an authoritative, but kind, tone. Maybe that was the voice she used with her students when she thought they were overwhelmed with a topic. “Maybe we should continue thistomorrow once you’ve had a chance to reevaluate your story for the app.”
I didn’t want to go.
Which was exactly the fucking reason I needed to.
I wanted to tell myself that I only wanted to stay because I was learning so much, because there were so many other things I needed to figure out.
Because there was no way that the truth was that I just… enjoyed Charlotte’s company.
A human.
It made no sense.
Maybe it was simply that I was enjoying being away from the house, from the others and their clear annoyance of my curmudgeonly attitude toward the humans and their world.
If that was the case, though, wouldn’t I just want to be on my own in my rented room instead of with the professor in the library?
Maybe I just needed to… stop fucking thinking about it.
“That’s probably a smart idea. I can gather my notes, maybe do some more of my own research, then get back to you. If you’re free tomorrow,” I said, gathering my notebooks and getting to my feet.
“I am always free. I am usually here if you are ever looking for me after class hours,” she said, waving at the table, and not getting up from it, making it clear she was planning on staying.
“Tomorrow then. Same time,” I said, having this overwhelming urge to reach out and slip some of the hair that had fallen out of her bun behind her ear.
I mean… what the actual fuck was that about?
“Same time,” she agreed. “And same coffee,” she added, giving me a saucy little smirk over the rim of the travel mug. “You’re not getting this back, by the way,” she added, tapping her nails on the side of it. And I absolutely did not think abouthow those fingers of hers would look wrapped around my cock. “It’s too pretty,” she added.
Yeah, yeah, she was.
Too pretty.
Too smart.
Too sexy, in a hot librarian kind of way.
And too fuckinghuman.
“Tomorrow,” I said, grabbing my shit and moving off.
CHAPTER FIVE
