by Crystal Dawn
The office wasn’t far and the door stood open in welcome. At least that was the way he looked at. He glanced at Lucy and she didn’t seem to feel the same way. Her face was screwed together in worry? Fear? Or maybe she was angry, all he knew was the emotion was a negative one. It didn’t sit well with him that she clearly didn’t want to be here but he told himself she’d not had time to get use to things. He knew deep down that no matter how long she was here it might not matter.
“Hey, Zeus, Sierra. This is Lucy, she was the one that called us for this mission. Her daughter, Paisley is with Doc.”
“Won’t you please sit down?” Sierra asked as she gestured to the seats across from them. She sat in a chair pulled over to Zeus’ side of the desk. “I’m glad everything went well.”
Zeus said nothing while he and Lucy were involved in a stare off. They were taking the measure of each other and nether was backing down. Lucy was strong willed, few beings of any kind could stand up to Zeus. He knew he couldn’t but he was raised to defer to him and she wasn’t. He’d like to think that was the difference because a strong female like Lucy needed an equally strong male. He wanted to be, hell no, he was that male! They were bonded in the ways mates were because he could feel the fear she was hiding so well.
Empathy wasn’t his gift either. Gods came with a variety of gifts and his group, the ones his age that had been made at the same time, hadn’t fully realized their abilities yet. Some had telepathy, he had telekinesis. Neat huh? No, not so much. He could move objects but only those the size of a ping pong ball. He worked with it when he wasn’t busy and remembered to do it. The level his skill was at, made it more of a party trick than a useful tool. He’d prefer Hermes speed or Hercules incredible strength. Zeus’s thunderbolts and Hades death powers were a bit too scary to own.
“Why don’t you tell us what worries you, Lucy?” Sierra asked.
Lucy broke her gaze away from Zeus reluctantly. “I want to leave this place.”
“Okay, why? Surely you realize there isn’t a safer place on this Earth for Paisley than here. Origin will hunt her to the best of their abilities which in the past have proven to be great indeed. Are you willing to risk the life and welfare of your child so you can leave here?”
“I have some skill at hiding in plain view. I had plans set in place to protect her.”
“Better than hiding here?” Zeus broke in, his voice deep and commanding.
“I believe so,” Lucy said coolly looking him eye to eye.
“What if they stumble on you? What kind of protection do you have?” he asked as his phone rang.
“Zeus…I see…so it is him. Thank you for calling.” He looked back at Lucy. “It seems this may be a mute discussion. As you’re aware, god seed was used to create your child. An unwilling, tortured male was forced to give up his essence and given no free will in the matter.”
“What are you going to do? Take it back?” she said starting to get angry.
“You may not know that every god is bred to reproduce. The desire is strong, stronger than that of most human males. We also love our children even more than ourselves. No god would reject their child or even the child of another if they needed them. The god that fathered Paisley has rights and according to the policy your government has with us, she would be kept here and you would get visitation.”
Adonis looked at Lucy. She was pale and looked as if she would be ill. “You can’t take my baby away. If it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t know about her or the others and Perseus would still be imprisoned.”
“He’s not saying we’d take her away,” Sierra explained shooting an angry glare at Zeus. “He’s simply explaining the worst possible situation to you. He wants you to realize it wouldn’t be fair to deprive the father of his child either. We want to work out something fair to all concerned.”
Adonis heard Lucy draw in a deep breath. “I don’t want to be unfair. I know what a child means to a parent but he doesn’t even know about her.”
Zeus nodded at Adonis. “That’s not true. He suspected and now he knows.”
“What do you mean?” she asked completely lost.
“Adonis is her father. We also believe he is your intended mate. Our kind believe one special person is that perfect match for us. I know you’ve heard that gods can’t breed and that was true for many years or seemed to be. Origin has discovered that a god can breed but only with his match. One female out of millions, what are the odds he would ever find her? Impossible, you might say. Origin started finding females with certain traits, strong, attractive, and smart. Now they breed them with a cocktail, a mix of all god’s seed available. Just a drop of each because our seed is strong and if put in the right place it will take root.”
Lucy had turned to look him instead of Zeus. If anything she looked more confused. “When did you know?”
“I felt a bond with you when you called. It wasn’t strong enough to be sure but when we met face to face, I knew you were mine. If you were mine, would Paisley be too? I couldn’t be sure and I didn’t care. I wanted to claim you both regardless. Living here, all gods help with the children so if she had a father that wasn’t me, if there was some aberration to the rule, he would still be able to be part of her life.”
“You never told me,” she accused.
“I told you several times that you were my mate,” he corrected.
“About Paisley, you never told me what you suspected.”
“I didn’t know. What difference would it have made?”
“I don’t know but you should have told me.”
Zeus and Sierra just sat there watching them bicker. When Zeus was tired of it, he spoke. “You two aren’t going to come to an understanding anytime soon, so I have a suggestion. Stay for a while and try to work something out.”
“I have a job I need to get back to. I can’t just stay here without making arrangements. My parents will worry, my apartment will be at risk, I don’t have anything with me, and I made arrangements to have a sitter for Paisley,” Lucy explained.
“Are those all your concerns?” Zeus asked.
“The important ones.”
“I’ve made arrangements with your work and they’ll let you work from here. They will send you a computer to use as soon as you make a decision. You can call your parents and tell them the truth if you trust them or a story of you don’t. I can have someone stay at your apartment since we need to track down some of the other mothers. Babysitters are not usually contracted, are they? Pay them something for their trouble and tell them an emergency came up. We have all the supplies on hand you might need and we can airlift anything in within a week. Any more excuses?”
“You can’t know who I work for, that’s not possible.”
“I was able to get a contact number through a senator. I don’t need to know what agency or what they do to get arrangements made. We work with all the agencies in some way or another. We have a friendly exchange of information on our enemies and theirs. I think you underestimate the information we have available. Our teams do work for all the major governments. I need an answer, but take today to think, rest, relax, and spend time with your daughter. Adonis will take care of anything you need and we will meet in the morning,” Zeus concluded.
They were dismissed and it was time to go. Zeus handed him a package but he didn’t look at it until he was in the hallway. It turned out to be exactly what he expected. It was a bottle of champagne with two glasses, well he hadn’t expected that, and the codes to his new family size apartment. It was a three bedroom so they had room to grow. It was easy to have two kids almost on top of each other since gods were so fertile with their mates. He headed back to medical and Lucy followed along behind him.
Doc was playing with Paisley when they came in. Paisley seemed to be laughing and grabbing for Doc’s fingers. It made Adonis feel good to see Paisley looking so happy. Now if he could just get somewhere with Lucy.
Chapter 7
Acceptance
Luc
y felt out maneuvered and she didn’t like it one bit. She knew she shouldn’t blame Adonis, he’d been a victim just as she had been. It did improve her mood to see her baby laughing and having fun. What happened next would be no fun at all. Adonis took Paisley and they left with him sending her a look of regret. Doc was going to give her a physical to see if Origin had messed with her while she was at their mercy. The rubber glove snapped as she pulled it into place. She was ready to begin and Lucy was undressed and in position. It was probably one of the most hated things women had to do.
“I’ll do this as quick and painlessly as possible,” Doc said in a reassuring professional voice. She quickly went through all the usual steps and she worked quickly and silently. “You can get dressed now.”
Lucy went behind a screen dressed and came out to sit in a chair. “So was everything alright?” she asked.
“I don’t know how to tell you this,” Doc said as she placed a small silver bead on the desk. “They had you tagged. It wouldn’t have mattered where you went. They would have found you. We’ll take this and I think Hercules can track it back to the source. Maybe we’ll catch somebody.”
Lucy felt ill as her stomach rolled. If they had caught her, they would have either taken her or killed her and Paisley would have been lost forever. “Thank you,” she whispered and her voice broke. It looked like staying was the only option for now. It would be nice to spend time with Adonis, but she was afraid she was falling for him. What would that mean if she did?
Adonis knocked on the door frame and walked in with Paisley in his arms. They looked good together, like family. She could get used to the three of them being together like that. All she wanted to do right now was throw herself in his arms and let him tell her it was alright. Maybe it wasn’t all she wanted to do because since she’d met him her libido had been in overdrive. She felt a funny feeling when he was near her and she was afraid of falling for him. Maybe even afraid she had already fallen for him.
She stood up and came to him. “I’m ready to go now,” she said and she knew she was putting herself and Paisley into his hands, for now anyway and maybe for ever. She would have to think through things before making that kind of commitment.
She remembered all the reasons she had decided to have Paisley as a single mother. The first was the men had disappointed her. The next was she wanted a baby more than she needed a relationship with what she had found available to her. She didn’t want a man to mother, she wasn’t a slave, she wanted more than to just settle for what was available. If she thought about it, had Adonis been available to her, she wouldn’t have thought of it as settling. She would give him some time, it was only fair. She would give him a chance to show her how things could be.
She was falling, there was no other way to describe it and everyday made it clearer that they had always been intended to be this little family. Paisley adored Adonis, and Lucy admitted she did too. She lay right now with her head above his heart listening to it slow down and get back to normal in the afterglow of some incredible lovemaking. He had finally explained about the bites he gave her and she could feel the changes taking place. She had been angry at first, but she had talked to Doc who had described what the venom did and assured her that while it calmed and relaxed, it didn’t take away free will. She had chosen Adonis without anything messing with her mind.
The bite had simply eased her acceptance of her own choices. It was easier to feel okay about a decision if you knew it was truly yours. They fit together so well and it wasn’t just wonderful sex. They could talk for hours and they were in agreement on how to raise Paisley and even on giving her siblings. She knew he feared she would leave him, but she had settled all her affairs and come to an agreement with her work. She would tell him soon, she was there to stay.
Epilogue
A week later, Lucy admitted she was happy. Her computer had arrived two days ago and she was able to put in her work schedule without problems. Someone was always available to keep Lucy and often they came over to watch her so she could spend her breaks with her. Adonis had been unbelievable. He was romantic, sweet, loving, and the sex just got hotter every time. She was waiting for him right now with candles lit, champagne on the table, and wearing a lovely little bit of nothing he would love.
She heard the door open. “Lucy.” Adonis yelled.
“In here,” she said.
“Oh, my.”
She lay stretched out on the bed ready to seduce. It would be the first time she had taken that role. She crooked her finger at him. “Come closer, Sweetheart.” His eyes glowed and she had not only gotten used to it but now it excited her.
He moved to where he was standing in front of her and started to slowly and sensuously strip out of his clothes. Heat rolled over her body as his magnificent attributes became exposed inch by gorgeous inch until h stood naked and proud his cock reaching toward the sky. Her breath whooshed out of her, she hadn’t even realized she’d been holding it in.
“See something you like?” he asked coyly.
She reached out and stroked him then grabbed him and pulled him right in front of her. He slid onto the bed and all she could look at was his magnificent monster so close that she leaned down and licked the drop of dew off the end. That tasted sweet so she went back for more. She licked him like a lollipop causing him to groan with need. She slid him into her mouth and went down as far as she could until she feared she’d gag. She took one hand and used it to stroke the bottom of his shaft where her mouth didn’t make it. She moved up and down bobbing her head faster and faster and stroking harder and faster with her hand.
He was close she could tell but he seemed to want between her thighs so she let him roll her to her back and she spread her legs wide so he could slide inside her. He was wild and he thrust in hard and fast going into a frenzy of need that caught her up with it. Fast, hard, and deep he moved and he swiveled his hips to hit the spots that drove her wild. He jack hammered into her until she spiraled out of control and then he followed her to heaven.
Once they were both breathing normally and their hearts had calmed, he gathered her into his arms. “Do you still resent being brought here?” he asked.
“No, I’ve come to believe it was fate that brought us together.”
“Will you marry me?”
She was stunned for a moment and she thought about it. Life with Adonis was everything she could hope for. She had already been planning to stay, this just made it more permanent. This would cement the decision she had already made. She and Paisley had found a home here among the gods.
“Yes, God, yes!” She exclaimed and he took her in his arms and she knew everything would be alright.
Frozen Origins Love
Aproditus
By Crystal Dawn
2015 Copyright by Crystal Dawn
Cover by Crystal Dawn using Istock images
Dedicated to love. We all want, need, and pursue it. May we all find it!
Prologue
Adonis with his dark outlook was severely testing Afrod’s good nature. His name was Aproditus, the male version of Aphrodite goddess of love, but everyone called him Afrod. He didn’t mind, it suited his playful side much better than his full name did. He was almost always in the best of moods, it was a gift really. Lately, the funk that had settled on Adonis seemed to have infected him as well. At least Adonis would be on a mission for a few days. He had had a successful call and as a reward, Hades had let him come with them. Word had spread throughout Olympus and some of the younger gods were jealous and some fearful that they might have to go out into the human world. Everyone knew how crazy it was out there and some embraced crazy while others ran from it.
Afrod had just returned after lunch feeling a little better with Adonis’ dark influence gone. His phone line lit up and then rang. “Lost god’s hotline. How may I direct your call?” he asked.
At first there was only silence then he heard noises that let him know the line was still live but his caller wasn’t talk
ing. “Let me help you,” he beseeched the caller. He felt deep inside that this was real and he needed to get the frightened person on the other end speaking. “I can help you if you let me. We’ll protect you and no one will be able to harm you.”
“They’re strong enough to keep a god imprisoned, what chance do I have?” a shaky and low voice whispered. She spoke so quietly, it was all Afrod’s super god hearing could do to hear her. All he knew is he had to get her to talk for her sake as well as theirs.
Aphroditus
Chapter 1
A Mission
He remembered when he was freed, it was after some of the gods had been freed at this very facility. He’d been at another with other gods and they’d known nothing except their jailors had started acting oddly. They’d been kept inside, experimented on, the food they were given was less and less and even their barely there shorts, a trademark of Origin, weren’t being replaced or cleaned. They all knew something was going on but had no way of knowing what.
That was before they were freed and brought before Zeus and he had told them everything. Joy surged so strongly through all of them even a human could feel it. He told them he had found a mate and they would all someday have one of their own. He’d been right as far as some were concerned and more joined the mated gods all the time. It was Afrod’s fondest hope, right after freeing his fellow gods just as he had been freed. They deserved the gifts he had received and he wanted to be out in the human’s world finding and freeing his brothers. His job here was the closest he had come. He looked at the phone line where he once again waited for the frightened young female to speak.