AN: Thanks to all who took the time to review my story! Numair's Wildmage, thanks for the offer to beta read but I cannot find an author by your pen name, so please tell me where your profile can be found.
The first two chapters were edited from their original version please re-read them if you haven't already.
Kissing Booth Hell:
Daine's POV:
Should I live through this torture, Numair is going to pay. I'll have birds pooping on him for days at a time. I can't believe he thought up this torture device for me. A kissing booth?
It was set up on a fair day and men got to pay a few nobles to kiss me. It was fair humiliating. If it wasn't for the whole if I don't find my truelove I die in 30 days, I'd flee from the embarrassment.
The first person in line was Evrin Larse, who blushed shyly as he kissed me. It was a nice kiss but I didn't feel anything special. After that came a bunch of people I barely knew, including a guy who was so drunk, I would swear I could get drunk off of the fumes.
Gods my lips are numb and there are still a lot of people waiting in line. I just want go somewhere and cry. I'd always dreamed of Numair being my first kiss and I almost got my wish until the messenger interrupted.
Another kiss, another one, good gods has this one ever heard of dental hygiene?
I'm so bored, I'm conversing with a rat who's laughing it's head off at me.
Why do the gods hate me?
Finally it's over! I kissed more men than I've ever wanted to kiss in my life, and none of them the one I want to exchange kisses with.
Exhausted and stressed, I let my tears flow, as I head to the stables. It's there that Perin finds me.
Numair's POV:
Why do the gods hate me? What have I done to warrant this punishment. Not that it matters but I just watched Daine kiss 200 guys, not that I was counting. Thankfully not one of them was my magelet"s truelove.
I wish I knew why I was drugged, is she worried that I would prevent Daine from finding the one for her? I wouldn't interfere. Even though my heart will shatter, I will allow her to find love without interfering on iota.
I just wish it was me.
New dream, Daine's crying. Magelet what's wrong? Magelet!
Dream switched again.
Some clerk named Perin, is trying to rape her, he has her cornered in the stables and said that since she signed up for the kissing booth she must be a slut. I wish I was there to protect her, but I'm not.
She knees him in his vulnerable spot and I wince. She's not defenseless.
I awake to stare into the eyes of the goddess who holds me captive.
"It's five days until Daine needs to be kissed and have you figured out why you're here mage?" the goddess asked softly.
"To not get in the way of Daine's happiness." I reply, putting steel in my voice and none of the pain I feel.
"Incorrect. Lets play a little game shall we?"
What choice do I have? I nod.
"Answer these questions to my liking and the ending will be a happy one for Daine, answer them wrong and she dies."
Love Goddess's POV:
I'd hoped that watching her had enabled him to realize that she was his but of course not. He thinks I've locked him up here, to keep him from ruining Daine's happiness when the truth is that I've locked him up to ensure that Daine gets some happiness.
So I propose a game, and set the rules and I delight at watching his face go pale in terror.
Games are always fun with mortals.
