Andi stopped in front of a clothing store that was just about to close. The name of the store was Illusion. There were clothing she wanted to try on, fall like colors. She was so absorbed in a red plaid skirt when she heard a voice behind her. “You’d look good in anything.” Turning around she seen Jace was there.
He spoke again, “With your beautiful skin tone you would look good in anything.”
“Yeah, that’s a lie. I’ll stick with my blacks and purples.”
Jace grabbed her hand and pulled her inside the store. The clerk looked up upon hearing the bell ringing. They both could see the annoyance written on her face. Jace quickly gave a winning smile. “We won’t be but ten minutes. Swear.”
Andi could see how the woman just melted under his stare. She could have sworn she felt something similar from that gaze but let it go. He then grabbed the red plaid skirt and a soft yellow orange shirt. He
Andi had only been outside for a few minutes before a strange guy walked up placing his arm around her neck. He pulled her away from the store. “How are you doing beautiful?”“Umm why are you …”The guy interrupted her before she could say anything. He spoke in a low voice. “Just play along, please? A group of guys have been following me and I’m honestly a little scared right now. Just please pretend I’m a friend.”Andi could hear the terror in his voice and decided to go along with it. She looked behind her to see a group of suspicious men following them. “I think I see them. I’m sorry that you’re in this situation.”“Thank you, you have no idea how much this means to me. My boyfriend was late and I think those guys are homophobic.”Andi wanted to do what she thought was right for him. She hadn’t thought to let Jace know that something had happened and
Her body was hunched over, she relied on a wooden cane that had intricate patterns on it. The woman Andi presumed to be Madame Mirage spoke in a scratchy voice. “Bienvenu mezanmi. You wish to have your fortune told?”Andi made quick work of going to take the woman’s hand. She had hoped her silent plea would reach her ears. “Yes, this guy wants his future revealed to him. I would do it myself but I was out on a date with a friend.”“AH a kindred sister. I felt a pull when I was in the back. Come, come.” She motioned for the man to follow her to the round table with a crystal ball sitting in the center. The three of them could see their reflections in the ball. Andi sat back hoping to reach out to Jace through her phone. Her head was down as she tried to send him a message.When she sat back in her seat the ball started to cloud over as the guy continued to stare into it. Madam Mirage waved her hand around the ball. &ldquo
Andi didn’t like that he laughed at her. She took the bag by her feet and swung it at him. That only made him laugh a deeper and richer laugh. “You’re impossible.” She stormed off ignoring his pleas and the whimpers of Cere.Madame Mirage gave him a once over and left her parting words. “You’ll do well to treat her right. You never know what happens when you anger a goddess of fate.”Jace had a wrinkle gather on his forehead with the way his eyebrows furrowed. “Goddess of fate? Yeah sure, madame I think you may need to take a rest. That beautiful woman is not some ugly old hag.”Madame mirage chuckled and it reached his ears. He hurried to catch up to her again. He wanted to know what that woman was talking about but when he seen Andi all he could think was she couldn’t possibly be some eons old hag that decided his life.Andi was just ahead holding the bag close to her chest. She had a small smi
Jace looked down as he chuckled. He took her hand and kissed the back of it. “I maybe weird through the eyes of a goddess but I assure you I’m quite normal through human eyes.”She shook her head. “No, you’re not normal. I can feel it. I know it. something about you is different. I just haven’t figured it out.”“Then await the day you do figure it out Mon chere.”Andi turned her head away from him. “Should we go and do something else or …?”He tucked his hands in his pockets and rocked back and forth on his heels. “I’m interested in that fortune teller we just left.”“Yeah? I don’t think she was a fortune teller. She seemed I don’t know familiar. It was almost as if I know her.”“If you do then that’s one old broad.”Andi laughed and lightly slapped his arm. “Don’t tell anyone. Seriously. You
Jace wanted to hold onto something anything as they took off. Instead, he just closed his eyes. Minos flapped his glorious wings until they were just above the city. With his coat blending into the night sky, they were free to go wherever they pleased.Andi assumed he had closed his eyes and she spoke to him directly in his ear. “You can open your eyes now.”Jace listened to her and looked around. They were far above the city that even if someone was to see them, they would assume it was nothing. He looked down to see how high they were. His eyes widen and he felt nervous. Andi chuckled at him. “I thought you were this big man on campus but I see you are more mortal than anything abnormal.”He spoke louder to be heard of the flapping of wings. “Well, you would be scared too if you just flew straight into the air and on a Pegasus no less.” He was truly dumbstruck. “You said that they live hidden within the world then how
Andi looked at him with skepticism in her eyes. Jace could see what she wanted to ask him. “I was just wondering.” She raised an eyebrow but didn’t say anything. “Seriously just wondering.” He felt the overwhelming urge to kiss her to get her mind off what he knew she was thinking, was he something more than a human. “Should we go?” he closed his eyes. Andi stared at him while he had his eyes closed, “yeah sure.” She stood behind him on the tips of her toes to reach where his eyes were. “I’m surprised that you didn’t want to fight me on this. I really didn’t want to have to whistle so that you would be blind folded again.” “No, I guess I wanted to do what my woman said without angering her.” “I haven’t agreed to be your woman.” “Did you kiss me back?” “No? I don’t know.” “You did. You’re my woman. I claimed you out on the street. Didn’t you hear me?” “I thought you were joking.” He shook his head and sta
Just as the two of them exited the grove, Cere came bounding up to them. His tongue hanging from his mouth. He pounced on her. Andi looked around to see if the old woman he lived with was nearby. Jace tried to help get Cere off her but the dog turned to him and growled. Jace noticed little flames in his eyes as he did so. Stepping back, he put his hands in his pockets. A simple question came to mind, could this be a hellhound? Andi was pinned on the ground and Cere went back to covering her in kisses. She started to laugh and wiggle around to get from underneath the beast. “Where’s your master? You should be Madame Mirage. Go home.” “Aren’t you, his master?” Andi leaned her head over to see the serious expression from him. Her eyebrows furrowed together. “What do you mean? This dog belongs to Madame Mirage.” He stepped closer to her, wrapping his arms around the dogs middle he hoisted it off her. Just as he did that a second and third head started to
Hades returned to his mortal disguised. Placing a leash on Cerberus the two of them left. Jace walked over to her and attempted to place his hand on her shoulder but missed. Andi seen him attempting to do it several times and laughed at him. She took his hand that was hanging in the air and lead him away from the grove.When they were out on the street, she took the blindfold off him. Jace blinked his eyes repeatedly to adjust. The city lights looked different there than it did when he was flying above it. “So that was Hades, right?”“Yeah, and seriously if you had seen what he looked like I’m sure you would have had a heart attack he is not for the faint of heart.”“He couldn’t have looked that scary.”She laughed nervously, “He does but I can honestly say he’s not as mean, vindictive, or spiteful as legends make him out to be. When he’s really happy, like ecstatic I have seen flowers grow
“Then if I scared you, you should make me angry.”He adjusted himself so that he was sitting on the sofa properly. “Or you can work on your temper.”“Do you know anything about me? History was correct about my personality.”“Yes, you were the unyielding one. The one that ends the lives of man. I know this. Why are you bringing this up?”“Because even if we try to act as if we are the same, we are far from it. I’m a deity. You are something I can’t place just yet.”Hearing her say that made him stiffen. He hadn’t expected her to have an inkling about him at all. He laughed nervously. “You’re funny. I’m just a normal person.”“Yeah, you see I watched movies during my time here before the rest came to join us. Only those that aren’t what they truly are say they are normal people.”“That’s just movie magic.&r
Jacqueline wasn’t sure if she should say anything else or let her brother be. If that strange girl was his girlfriend, then where did that leave Corrine? She looked down at the sleeping wolf, then covered her with the blanket. “Sleep well little brother. I’ll talk to you in the morning.”“Yeah, yeah.” He yawned, while walking away. Part of him wanted to check on Andi once again but decided against it.Jacqueline sat next to the table. Corrine hadn’t stirred yet. She waited to see when Corrine would take a breath. It felt like an eternity had taken place before she seen the rise and fall of her chest. Jacqueline breathed out in relief. “I can’t imagine how hurt you feel to know that the one you believe to be fated to has someone else. Even if Jace isn’t your mate, the perfect one will come and steal your breath away.”Corrine opened her eyes then. She was still in her wolf form but the sorrow was c
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His presence seemed to calm her enough to cause the rage building inside of her to dissipate. The wolf in the back seat was too lethargic to know what was going on but even her fur stood on ends from the aura permeating around them. Andi wanted to reveal herself but with Jace holding on to her she kept herself from doing anything. “Please return to your vehicles and think wisely on your life choices.”Jacqueline got out of her car and walked cautiously to Jace’s the wolf was one she was sure she recognized. Her once calm and serene face twisted into a scowl.The police got back into their vehicles, driving off in a slight daze. Jace turned her around to face him, lost in the sight of her eyes going from pure black to white with brown iris. He moved his head back in shock. “So, that’s something.”Andi covered her face, partially hating that he seen her that way. Jacqueline got the wolf out of the car and into his house. The who
Andi kept turning her head back to check that the wolf was still breathing. Her nerves were on edge, this was a first for her. Human emotions were something she never had to deal with before in her life, not in this way. “Andi? Are you driving yet?”She knew he wanted her to answer him but seeing that big and oddly beautiful creature laying in the backseat with its life slowly ebbing away she couldn’t say anything. Jace called out to her again, hoping to get her attention. “Andi? Answer me. You need to start moving if we’re going to keep the wolf from being dying.”The word dying snapped her out of her daze. “Yeah, you’re right. Her death isn’t supposed to happen right now.”Jace was startled by her words, “Her? what do you mean?”Andi started the car and tried to focus on what he had told her before; she got the car moving again. “I may not deal with the death of animals but I
“That’s fine. Look at my keys and get the one that looks different.” “Ok.” She held the keys up to the burgeoning light. She seen the one with a different handle on it. “How did you get inside? These look like house keys too.” “I have a spare. Go ahead and stick it into the slit on the side of the steering wheel.” “Right.” She stuck it in the turned it forward, the car roared to life. Jace could hear the car humming in the background. “Great. Now if you look to you right there’s going to be the gear shift, a handle so to speak. Do you see it?” “Yes. I have my hand on it now.” She placed her hand on the stick. She tried to move it but it wouldn’t move. “Jace it won’t move.” “It won’t. Just wait. In order to get it to move take you right foot and place it forward. You’ll feel two different peddles. Do you feel them?” She moved her foot forward and touched on one. It caused the car to rev up. She removed her foot. “I found one.” S
“Different how? Atropos what have you done?” It was Cleo that spoke up. She couldn’t believe the one deemed “inflexible” to be swayed by a man. “Have you learned nothing from the countless women that sold their souls for a stupid man? You’re really saying that he’s different?” Lachesis eyes widen at the way she spoke to their sister. She started to speak up when Atropos squared her shoulders. It was a sign; it was the beginning of a fight. Lachesis didn’t want to be there anymore. Just as she was starting to move, Atropos held her hand up. “Are you really questioning me Clotho?” “I-I’m not. It’s just that you’re acting like an idiot. How can we trust him?” Atropos crossed her arms over her chest. Tilting her head, you could see the annoyance festering in her eyes. “Are you done? Because if you want to continue to ATTEMPT to treat me as if I am an idiot then the conversation can be over and I will not confide in either of you.” The two sisters looked a
Jace reached the ceremonial grounds once again. He looked to see majority of them still in their wolf form only to see his mother and a few around her. He made a beeline towards her. She sensed the presence of her son coming up to her. She gave him a smile, happy that he had returned. “You’re back.” “Yeah, I heard something had happened to you. Are you alright?” “I’m fine just had a bit of a fainting spell. I’ll be right as the moon soon.” He wilted from the tension that was released from his body. “I thought it was something serious.” “I’m fine my boy. No need to worry about me. it’s not like I was attacked and killed by a rival clan.” Jace hugged her and sat next to her for the time being. Corrine seen that he had made it. she was wondering if he ran here or took his car. She lifted her nose to the air, smelling his scent. It was mixed with sweat, letting her know that he had ran all the way there. She took that chance to come over to him. “
Jace finally pulled himself together. Even though they were gods right at the moment they were still people. Just very old people. Ancient in fact. The thought that they at some point seen him in the nude made him begin to panic again. His breathing be labored and erratic. Andi could feel something changing in the atmosphere. She opened her eyes to see Jace sitting there with his hands on the wheel breathing heavily. Snapping to attention she became worried about him. “Are you alright?” He didn’t answer her. His eyes were staring straight into the darkness. It was worrying her. she tried to get him to talk to her again. “Seriously Jace are you alright?” He answered her, although his voice was barely above a whisper. “Yes… No!” Hearing his voice made her calm down enough to assess the situation. “Do you want to talk about it?” “it’s just hitting me that I’m bringing the fates together. Literally the FATES! You can imagine that I’m in a state of panic.”