Lilith's POVOur night is full of disturbed sleep, Lora waking every few hours with a soft cry to let us, mainly me, know she's ready for more food.I hadn't thought much outside of the pregnancy but now I'm faced with a sleepless first night and breastfeeding my child.She's beautiful, breathtakingly gorgeous and she's mine.When I was a child, or even up until recently I never fathomed that I might become a mum.It wasn't in my mindset. Finding Theo wasn't either.I was sure that I would live a long and painful life alongside the mate, Khai, that was to scared to claim me.Yet here I am with two mates and a baby and... my parents.Celeste has shown a keen interest in Lora and inadvertently me because of that.And when I look down at my baby I realise that Celeste has known her a lot longer than I have.How many times has she reached into that pool to cradling her combined souls?Did she speak to her? Bond with her int he time since she arrived up here until yesterday when her souls
Zeus's POVLife often passes by with the same old routine.I am God, and in turn for being that I get what I want when I want, and I'm not ashamed of that.There's something about being the person everyone worships. The one they turn to when things are going haywire.The surge of happiness I experience when it's me who has the referendum choice of what happens in their small and insignificant life is abominable.Yet it's been this way for millennia, and I do not wish for that to change.But I cannot deny the change that I feel is coming.I've felt weak, my abilities shorting out whenever they feel like it, and I have that dreaded human gut feeling sitting deep within my stomach.Theseus is vying for my title, he wants what I have, and I'm sure he won't stop until he gets it.A god that is reaching far above his pay grade, so to speak. Theseus used to be one of my favourite underlings that I owned.He was efficient, loyal and to the book, but since he and Celeste decided to sire a chi
Theo’s POVI note the warriors outside as I stare out of the bedroom window. After getting dressed for the day. Six men that put any of mine to shame, put any of our kinds to shame. They must all stand above seven foot. They’ve hardly anything on and their bodies are pack with muscle showing their strength and ability. They’ve not moved an inch, standing with weird spears that look as if they could cut someone within an instant for the last twenty minutes.They were not here last night, nor any other night we’ve stayed here.This is new and there must be a reason behind their appearance.Sending men to guard a place or people is not a strategy someone would come up with if they didn't feel threatened.So taking from that it that leads me to the thoughts that Zeus feels threatened and his retaliation was to put something in place to take that unwanted threat away, but I cannot decide what he particularly feels insecure about.Is it Lora?Does her appearance here in this realm perplex
Celeste's POVI excuse myself from the kitchen and my guest to go upstairs to the very top floor where Theseus's pool sits waiting for me.Swirling my hand in the liquid I summon my husbands. Watching his movements as he stands before Theseus's looming mansion.Lilith is inside, that much is clear between the conversation Theseus and Khai are having.Well, actually, they are more like arguing because Khai wants in and Theseus has taken them as far as he possibly can.You see the thing is Zeus has a spell binding his land to himself and without his explicit permission no one is able to pass the boundary.He must have wanted Lilith to visit, hence she's inside. But why?What does Zeus want with Lilith?I stand at the pool watching for an age, noting how anxious Theseus is.His behaviour of late had been strange, and at first I thought perhaps the little mishap with Zeus had caused him to become distant. But that isn't it.There's something more going on, his mind overwhelmed, I think.
Lilith's POVIt seems Zeus was waiting for me to drop by, a platter of lunch is served and he's sitting in a grand throne in nothing but a pair of white trousers.His chest is bronzed and bare and as are his feet.“Dear, Lilith. I hadn’t expected to see you so soon after the miracle birth of your young pup. Where is she?” He asks, looking around me and the warrior that accompanied me inside.“With her fathers,” I spit his way angrily.“Why do we need these men guarding Celeste’s home?” I get straight to the point.“They aren’t guarding Celeste’s home. They are guarding your daughter… I thought you might want some protection after those horrid bears escaped and attacked the three of you.”His words sound sincere and the simple smile he has plastered on his faces begs to fool me but I know better.Of course he isn’t protecting my child.He has another motive in putting his men around us but he isn’t willing to share and I mustn’t conclude when I have next to no evidence as to what his m
Zeus’s POVLilith disappears immediately, her need to tend to her young heightened because she’s been away.Her guilt smells flavoursome and her mates jealously is laughable.Theo follows along behind her like a lost puppy dog whilst Celeste tries her best to distract me.“Zeus, please… come in,” she states walking for me.I appraise her with my eyes, remember just what’s below those clothes she uses to cover her body.That night still plays out in my mind. The way I made her worship me at the table. How well my elixir worked to help me bed her.The feel of her soft skin below my hands.The sweet taste of her lips on mine.Victory… the victory of finally taking the one goddess I had never had because of that stupid promise I made to her mortal father.“Celeste,” I grin, “where Theseus?” I ask despite the fact I know he’s outside my home waiting for the opportunity to enter with Lilith’s other mate.“You should know better than I, after all, he went to your home to find our daughter,” s
Theo’s POV‘What was you thinking?’ I start our conversation through mind-link, hoping that Zeus is not a spectator to our conversation.Lilith has already attached Lora to her breast and Lora has calmed enough to feed successfully. I note Lilith’s breasts are swollen and sore and I wonder whether she realised how long she was actually gone for.She left me and Lora without any method of feeding our newborn pup. For three hours she left doing god knows what.I walk to her, a low growl in the back of my throat as I smell the crevice of her neck.I’m not sure why I do it, what causes me to believe she may have done something undesirable whilst she were away but my jealously rears it’s ugly head and here I am, smelling my mate as if she’s done something formidable.I smell nothing but cheese and strawberries, maybe even grapes on her and the smell of her milk which is the strongest scent she carries at the moment.So she ate but…‘I don’t want the guards outside, they creep me out. We’
Lilith’s POVI wake to the room is disarray and our bags packed.It’s early evening, the sun setting in the sky outside the window and it’s chilly.Lora is sleeping beside me soundly and I’m unwilling to move.I stuffy her. Her dark hair fluffy now, her eyes closed yet moving. Her nose is small and defined and she had full lips with a shapely cupids bow.Her skin is milky like mine yet she takes after her fathers mostly.She’s beautiful and I’m in awe of her and how she came to be.We made her, my body made her.She grew inside of me and for that I’m proud.I never thought upon having children or the logistics of how a child is to become.Yet now that she’s hear I realise what a miracle pregnancy is.What a miracle she is.I laze around, staring at her for the longest of times.Memorising every part of, submitting how incredibly gorgeous she is to memory so I never forget this moment.A small and quiet moment between her and I where I’ve taken the take to step back from the things aro