Finding His Goddess, page 1
FINDING HIS GODDESS
A KINDRED TALES NOVEL
EVANGELINE ANDERSON
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Finding His Goddess, 1st Edition,
A Kindred Tales Novel
Copyright © 2022 by Evangeline Anderson
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CONTENTS
Finding His Goddess
Author’s Warning
1. Lucy
2. T’zaren
3. Lucy
4. T’zaren
5. Lucy
6. T’zaren
7. Lucy
8. Lucy
9. T’zaren
10. Lucy
11. Lucy
12. T’zaren
13. Lucy
14. Lucy
15. T’zaren
16. Lucy
17. T’zaren
18. Lucy
19. Lucy
20. T’zaren
21. Lucy
22. T’zaren
23. Lucy
24. T’zaren
25. Lucy
26. Lucy
27. T’zaren
28. Lucy
29. T’zaren
30. Lucy
31. Lucy
32. T’zaren
33. Lucy
34. Lucy
35. Lucy
36. T’zaren
37. Lucy
38. Lucy
39. Lucy
40. Lucy
41. T’zaren
42. Lucy
43. Lucy
44. T’zaren
45. T’zaren
46. Lucy
47. Lucy
48. T’zaren
49. Lucy
50. T’zaren
51. Lucy
52. T’zaren
53. Lucy
54. T’zaren
55. Lucy
Epilogue
The End?
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FINDING HIS GODDESS
Lucy thinks the huge Monstrum warrior, T’zaren is a grumpy stick-in-the-mud
T’zaren disapproves of the curvy little human female’s light-hearted view of life.
But when they have to go on a mission together as Lady and manservant and T’zaren had to serve her in every way, will they change their minds? And will T’zaren ever succeed in…Finding his Goddess?
To find out you’ll have to read this Enemies to Lovers, Grump and Sunshine, Fake Dating, Hot Alien Warrior Romance!
Is there anything worse than a grumpy man? What about a grumpy seven-foot-tall Monstrum warrior who seems to have no sense of humor at all? Lucy Heartwood doesn’t think so. She’s an optimist at heart with a bubbly personality and she’s not anxious to spend extended time with a stick-in-the-mud like T’zaren.
Unfortunately, the huge Monstrum is going to be her protector on a mission to save the Monstrum Mother Ship. They must travel together to the stronghold of Lady Twi’linda—a Twainer who has the only supply of dimriel crystals, which the Mother Ship desperately needs.
T’zaren doesn’t approve of Lucille—she’s not serious enough. But she makes the Sen Stripe along his spine flare like no other woman ever has, making her damn hard to resist. When he has to act like her manservant and “serve” her in every way on their mission, their strained relationship suddenly gets a lot more interesting. But when their hostess takes a turn towards evil and danger stalks them both, will he be able to save her?
And will he ever succeed in…Finding his Goddess?
AUTHOR’S WARNING
There is a part in this book where the heroine is in sexual peril so please read responsibly. I wish I could put this warning at the end of my blurb, like I used to, but last time I tried that, the book I was posting a warning on got permanently banned. So I’m going to be putting warnings here from now on.
Hugs and Happy Reading to you all!
Evangeline
Dedicated to Sierra E. Hoskins
Thank you for sending me man candy for
inspiration and for being a great reader!
Hugs, Evangeline
ONE
LUCY
“I just can’t get over it—it’s so great to finally have you on board the Monstrum Mother Ship, Lucy!” Iyanna said, giving Lucy another big hug—the fifth or sixth since she’d arrived. “I’ve missed you so much! Aren’t you glad you came?”
“I missed you too—I’m glad I finally got a break in my classes so I could come,” Lucy said, hugging her back affectionately and blowing a strand of long blonde hair out of her eyes as she did so. “My course load has been crazy lately and Aunt Delilah has been after me to help her set up the shop for Halloween. But a promise is a promise, so here I am!”
“Oh, I’m so sorry I won’t be down there this year to see the shop,” Iyanna exclaimed. “Is she doing a theme this year?”
Lucy’s Aunt Delilah, who had raised her after her parents died in a house fire, was a practicing Wiccan. She owned a shop that specialized in rocks, gems, and “power crystals.” In fact, it was from her that Lucy had gotten her interest in Geology, which she now held a PhD in. Aunt Delilah had a good sense of humor and loved to play up her “witchy” side on Halloween. Lucy had promised that as soon as she got home from her visit with Iyanna, she would help her set things up.
“She’s got a big fake cauldron and she’s going to put some dry ice and some green lights in the bottom of it and brew up a ‘potion,’” she told Iyanna. “The kids who come Trick-or-treating are going to love it. And of course we have to hang spider webs and put up a few skeletons and that kind of thing.”
“It sounds amazing.” Iyanna sighed. “I wish I could see it—please be sure to send me some pictures.”
“Well I can promise you it won’t be half as amazing as the Monstrum Mother Ship. I mean, everything you’ve shown me so far just blows my mind!” Lucy told her.
Iyanna had been giving her the grand tour and she was delighted to finally be seeing her friend’s new home. The giant golden spaceship which orbited Mars was enormous and filled with fascinating alien life, from the vines and creepers and flowers that grew everywhere to the Monstrum warriors themselves.
Iyanna had been begging her to come for a visit for months now. The two women had worked together as professors at USF for some time—Iyanna had a PhD in Botany and Lucy had one in Geology. Lucy had thought they were both pretty happy with their work. But that was before Iyanna had decided to go up to the Monstrum Mother Ship for a “research trip.” There she had found the Monstrum warrior of her dreams and had gotten married almost at once. And now she was extremely pregnant.
Lucy couldn’t help being a little envious of her friend. Iyanna was younger than her but she had already found her ideal life. She looked perfectly content—which was something Lucy couldn’t claim for herself. In fact, Iyanna looked so happy she was practically glowing, like one of the bioluminescent plants here on the Dark Side of the Monstrum ship.
“I have to show you the Dark Side while it’s all in bloom,” Iyanna had said, after taking Lucy all around the first half of the ship. “It’s so gorgeous right now—reminds me of the electric light parade in Downtown Disney when I was a little girl. All those glowing neon colors in the dark—you’re going to love it!”
Now that they were here on the Dark Side of the Monstrum Ship, Lucy had to admit it was gorgeous. She loved the way this side of the ship looked less like a spaceship and more like a jungle complete with enormous trees, vines and broad-leafed ferns—there was even a river running through the center of it! Iyanna had explained that the river ran through the entire ship, though it was “underground” so to speak, on the Light Side of the Monstrum Ship.
“This is so beautiful,” Lucy said, looking around the vast dark jungle filled with glowing blooms. “How in the world did the Monstrum build all this?”
“Oh, the Monstrum Mother Ship is a living organism,” Iyanna explained seriously. “It’s not like the other Kindred Mother Ship—the one that orbits the Moon. That one was built, but this ship wasn’t manufactured so much as grown. The Monstrum consider it—her—to be their mother in a way, and they take excellent care of her. Oh be careful! Don’t slip!”
She reached out
“Oops!” Lucy laughed as she grabbed her friend’s hand to steady herself. “Clumsy me! You know how I am.”
“Oh, I know,” Iyanna grinned at her. “Remember that time we did the ‘Yoga with Goats’ class?”
“Don’t remind me!” Lucy groaned, but she couldn’t help grinning along with her friend. She had never been the most graceful creature—she got preoccupied thinking of something else and walked into walls or stubbed her toes on furniture, but sometimes her clumsiness got her into more trouble than others.
The idea of the “Yoga with Goats” class, which was conducted on an exclusive goat farm on the outskirts of South Tampa, was for the participants to do yoga poses while a bunch of baby goats frolicked around them at the same time. It was supposed to be both relaxing and amusing because sometimes the goats would hop on your back while you were on your hands and knees doing tabletop or butt at you, asking to be petted, while you were doing some other, more complicated pose.
Unfortunately, this premise had gone terribly wrong when Lucy and Iyanna had attended the class. They had spread their yoga mats on the lovely green grass along with about twenty other students—most of them thin, rich, South Tampa women who had nothing to do but take exercise classes and attend charity events all day. Iyanna and Lucy hadn’t really fit in with this group since they were both curvy girls, but they didn’t care. They started following the teacher along with the rest of the class, but halfway through, disaster struck.
“I was just trying to do a side-plank,” Lucy said now, as Iyanna started giggling at the memory. “How did I know one of those goats was right behind me?”
“Well the whole class knew once you fell over on the poor little guy!” Iyanna pointed out. “And he started bleating so loud!”
“I didn’t mean to squish him!” Lucy said, trying not to laugh.
“I know but you did! And when I looked over, there he was with his little hooves waving in the air, trying to get out from under you and bleating like crazy!” Iyanna was laughing so hard she was nearly crying now.
“I know but he was fine! You know once I finally rolled off him he hopped right up and trotted away,” Lucy exclaimed, but she was laughing just as hard as her friend. “And all those snooty South Tampa women were looking at me like I tried to murder him!”
“Well, I mean, he was…was screaming and bleating so loud you’d think you were!” Iyanna snorted and swiped at her eyes. “Oh my God—I haven’t thought of that in ages. See—that’s why I miss you, Lucy. Things are never dull when you’re around.”
Lucy grinned and squeezed her friend’s hand.
“We did have a lot of fun together. I miss you too.”
The Yoga with Goats incident was an embarrassing memory and most people would have been humiliated, but Lucy wasn’t afraid to laugh at herself. She missed having a friend who felt the same way. Iyanna was so much fun to be around and now she was living up here among the stars while Lucy was still stuck back on Earth.
The thought made her sigh with unaccustomed sadness, since she was usually a cheerful, upbeat kind of person.
Iyanna picked up on her mood at once and gave her a concerned look.
“Hey, what’s wrong all of a sudden?”
“Oh…I guess it’s just that I miss you.” Lucy shrugged awkwardly and pushed a sheaf of blondish-brown hair out of her hazel eyes. “Now that Mike and I have broken up—”
“Wait—you broke it off with Mike? But I thought the two of you were talking about getting married!” Iyanna said, frowning.
“We were but well…it just wasn’t right. You know what I mean?”
“Oh, I know.” Iyanna nodded wisely. “Don’t forget, I basically left my own fiancé at the altar when Dra’vik burst in during the wedding ceremony.”
“I know—I heard all about that!” Lucy said. “I wish I could have seen it.”
“Let me tell you, it was a sight to behold. My parents are still getting over it.” Iyanna grinned. “My Mom only wanted family at the ceremony—I bet she’s glad now that she didn’t invite all her friends from church just to watch me run off from my nice, perfectly normal-looking human fiancé to be with the Devil.”
Lucy snorted laughter as her friend’s description.
“Well, Dra’vik does look kind of devilish—at least from the pictures you’ve sent me,” she pointed out. Her friend’s new husband was nine feet tall, covered in scales, and had horns sprouting out of his temples. Plus, as a Drake Monstrum, he could actually breathe fire. She supposed anyone could be excused for thinking he was the Devil. Yet, Iyanna seemed perfectly happy with him.
“You’ll get to meet him in person at dinner tonight,” Iyanna told her. She wiggled her eyebrows expressively. “And who knows—by then you might have a Monstrum of your own. With those curves of yours and your honey-colored hair and eyes—I saw the way the pilot who brought you here was looking at you!”
Lucy felt herself blushing. The pilot had been a Felinus Monstrum who looked like a black panther. He had been extremely charming on the flight from Earth to the Monstrum Mother Ship, pointing out various stars and constellations and telling her little tidbits about how the Monstrum were coming to enjoy their new home in this universe, since their own universe had been overrun by the evil Darklings.
But she reluctantly shook her head.
“No, I’m not really looking for anyone right now. Mike and I just broke up last month—it’s still too fresh.”
“Why did you break up, anyway?” Iyanna asked, frowning. “You never told me.”
“Well, I mean…” Lucy shifted uncomfortably. “I hate to say it but he was boring. I mean, neither of us was getting any younger and he never wanted to try anything different.”
“Different in the bedroom, you mean?” Iyanna arched her eyebrows meaningfully. “You wanted to get kinky and he didn’t even want to turn on the lights?”
“Something like that,” Lucy mumbled, blushing. She and Iyanna used to talk about everything but this kind of thing was, well, private.
It had all started when she’d happened upon a BDSM romance novel. She had never cared much for the Fifty Shades books when they came out—they were poorly written in her opinion—and she hadn’t bothered to watch the movies either. But this particular book, which happened to pop up as an ad on her e-reader, had piqued her interest.
She had read the book—which actually had a pretty good plot—from cover to digital cover and found herself incredibly intrigued. She and her fiancé had been together for years and had never tried anything adventurous—now she had a whole slew of ideas to spice things up in the bedroom!
Only Mike wasn’t interested in getting spicy. When Lucy asked him to blindfold her and tease her, he didn’t want to. So then she suggested that she ought to try blindfolding him—maybe even tying him up—and teasing him a bit. To be honest, this idea excited her even more—she liked the idea of being in charge—especially since she never had been before.
But Mike vetoed this idea even more stridently than the other.
