The house of Hesse-Dermsadt had not yet recovered from the aftermath of a mass feeding. Until the next day, the staff had to manually hose down the whole hall because splatters of blood was everywhere and calling in a cleaning company was not a good call as of the moment. Many of the guests have returned to their lives, only a handful remained and they were the Persephone fanatics. Some sin-eaters do not want to waste their time participating in some wild goose hunt for the Goddess to bestow on them another gift. They were after all, all given one of different gift. Others like Harvey Stone, an arms dealer, knew that the word ‘contentment’ do not exist in his vocabulary. It was customary that the house remain open for those who had been invited by the mistress of the mansion to stay or leave until they please. That was a tradition that can never be overlooked or forgotten because Bulgarians are hospitable people and they take pride in it. A custom, which the cunning Harvey chose to a
“Correct me if I am wrong, but I think you are Harvey and you speak for this entourage?” Maddox threw the head and it went rolling to the side. “Y-yes, I-I am.” Harvey stuttered. “You know what.?” Maddox whispered to his ear, “my father had taught us to be respectful to the people who prepare your meals, besides. Though Julienne is indeed an old man, we treat him as family.”Harvey,seeing what had happened to his colleague , trembled in fear. They have heard about the son of the Duchess, but they figured that because he was always away and was rumored to prefer living the nomadic life in the dessert that he would care less and did not bother to check on the welfare of their house staff. The arms dealer was wrong.“I apologize.”“What do you have here?” He asked, not acknowledging the fact that the man had apologized. “We are, um, planning to work as a group to...erm...” One of the men answered.“The anomaly, yes, yes, right. I will make you a deal, shall we gentlemen?”Maddox caugh
Zac’s POVI have decided to stay in New York for a couple of days. While hanging out with Helena in her dreamy Tuscany property was a wonderful way to derail me from my thought, the desire to find out what was happening to my body was stronger. I knew that I needed to know and if she won’t tell me just yet, I will have to wait, but that does not mean that I won’t try to figure it out on myself.She did not accept the decline to her invitation but gave me her phone number and we laughed about how we shared beds and shared wonderful orgasms together but never exchanged phone numbers. We parted ways after an hour of animated banter.I went back to my flat and ignored the looks that I was getting from my neighbors. One of the men outside tried to stop me from climbing the steps. I live on the second floor and I prefer to use the stairs than the elevator.“Hey, you do no live here? Are you looking fro someone? I have bee----holy molly, is that you? Zacky?” He finally came to me and I canno
Helena’s POVI am not gonna be a hypocrite. I admit that I am very much displeased and disappointed that he turned down the offer. In my defense, I actually want to be around Zac so I can see for myself the transformations that he was going through. At this rate, he was changing so fast that even she, a full pledged sin-eater still cannot believe until she sees it for herself. And also, she liked the way Zachary performs in bed. I ended up checking in the Mandarin hotel for the night. After Zac made his point that he did not want to come to Tuscany with me, as of the moment, I did not want to be there all by myself either. That was also the only time that I remembered to check on my phone. It was unfortunately turned off but I am sure that the power was not down. Upon opening the device, I heard tons of pings, an indication that I was getting notifications. Many of the calls were from Maddox and Julienne while none came from my mother. This did not surprise me a bit. She never care
George stood at my doorstep soaked in his own sweat, he was panting and I can hear his heart beating wildly and my focus was on his jugular which was by now, I can tell very rich with thick warm blood. I shook my head.What on earth was I even thinking.“You are here and yet, I have to learn the news from a neighbor? Man, that is rude and what are you doing here,your supposed to be still on a vacation!”Amusement flickered in his eyes as he carefully gave me a sweeping look from the head, all the way to my bare feet. I was just wearing my striped cotton boxers because I planned on hopping on the shower before he showed up.“Dude, I just came back.”“Yeah, I can tell.” He passed by me and jumped to the couch. “Whatever drugs they gave you in Bulgaria, please, let me know if you have something left.” Honestly, I still cannot get a grip of that reality. My best friend thinks I have allowed myself to so,e drugs in that country and I cannot tell him that I was not because I for one do no
“There is someone out in the reception looking for you, George.” Donna, an associate at the accounting firm where George and Zac worked whispered when she arrived at his cubicle. George was wrapping up the account file that their boss had been asking for him two days ago. He sat there wide eyed and trying to figure out who would come visit him in the office without calling beforehand. “Who?” He whispered back.“I do not know, but at first she was looking for Zachary, and when I told her he is not in, she asked me if there’s anyone in here who could at least point her into the right direction.” “She said that?”“Yes.”“Um, why are we whispering?’’“Because I know that your girl friend can be very violent and she and Sheila from the Human Resources are friends, it might get to her ears if I was not careful.”“Oh, but I have to tell you that, whoever that was outside, I am not the father of the baby, Donna.” “Just get out there, she’s been causing traffic from the male associates.” D
Ken was at the ranch when I got home in our modest five bedroom house in Texas. I got there in a total of sixteen hours because I did not sleep and my whole body felt that I have no need of it which was pretty new to me since the farthest that i have driven this past three years was just the other state and it consumed more time sleeping than the drive itself. I went straight to the ranch to surprise him, It was still early and I know that he usually arrives soon. I parked my car next to where I know he parks his jeep and waited. Not less than five minutes and after counting the many chickens that were free roaming our ranch, a battered jeep was in view. Ken still uses the car that we used to steal from Dad when we go to the lake to watch the seniors swim naked. He was coming in hot and his wheels sent the dust flying every where. I am guessing he saw me too. He knew my car too well. The wheels skidded on the gravel as he stepped on the break and jumped off the driver’s seat to welc
Hades adored Persephone. What she was accusing him of was totally untrue. He had always loved her the way that he only knew how to. He was not like Poseidon or Zeus who will make it rain diamonds in the sky to prove their love and affection to the woman that they love.Point here is, he loved her. He used to, until she decided to be a b*tch and decided to be happy with it.Like right now, he is still stuck in a prison hell in..hell. This was his domain and yet his wife managed to upstage him and rule the underworld like it was hers in the first place. Hades, though he hated to admit, was like his brothers, arrogant bastards who think nothing but themselves, but at the end of the day, it was still them-they are brothers after all and brothers in any species, liked competing for anything.They first competed for their parent’s favors.And then Olympus.And then the world.No matter how he hates it, he knew that his brothers did not like him to think that he was less favored. He did many
A message from the author to my readers: Thank you. I was trying to figure my life when I was writing this story--with only one thing in my mind: Escaping from reality. This book holds a special place in my heart because I was not at the top of my game while patcing sentence after sentence, imaginging sequences and mending a broken heart. This had been my escape. My characters are all a part of me. Each were given a piece of me , so I can feel less burdened. i might not have written this perfectly or top notch, but I am sure that this is the best that I can offer while trying not to break down into pieces.I am a mother of two and I am messed up right now but the growing numbers of subscribers and readers gives me the push that I needed to type away, to put my thoughts into words. To hone the talent that I have (although I admit that I am a mediocre) and to pay it forward to the writers who have influenced me to write and to the friends who kept me going whenever I feel backing d
Helena’s POVAll my life I thought that I was destined to live and die by myself. My mother does not love me or so I thought , but it turns out that she loved me the way that she knew how. I could have not found this if not for Zachary Oliver who turned my boring, sin-eater life into a full three hundred and sixty throttle mode.And yet, here I am.Happily married to the man that my brother, Maddox had bitten. So, he was not a mystery. He was under the influence of the Goddess Persephone, who was in return--under the manipulation of my husband’s very own grandfather. We both have dysfunctional families but we both share the same goals--to maintain our happy family.I have kids that always remind me to keep my feet on the ground and to always love one another. I have completely abandoned my life as a high end Bulgarian high end bachelorette for a life of simplicity and endless laundry and and I believe that I am already qualified to compete in the national rapping competition.I rap
They say that a family is the basic unit of a community. For Zac, family is everything. He could not ask for anything more. Having two set of parents and a lovely wife, with three beautiful kids who do not let them live in peace and keeps them up on their toes all day is what a family really is.Their house is a mess all the time and he and Helena cannot have enough time for themselves unless they visit Bulgaria, where every house staff was eager to take care of the three kids and the entire estate is their playground.Zac was staring at the sky, sipping his third cup of coffee, because is essential when you are a parent. Helena left her work and takes good care of the children full time, she has her hands full with three kids to feed and a husband to reprimand on spoiling the children. Zac still works with the firm and he is now senior partner. George is still working there and he is the other senior partner. Helena bought the firm in secret.They really do not need to work because he
The kitchen in that modern bungalow house down in Maine was a mess. Three children ages four, three and two were busy making breakfast for themselves.Not your ordinary, edible breakfast. They took everything out from the fridge and poured flour all over their stash.The kid's names were---"Solandra, Maddox and Hades! Oh my.. What the fudge!" she was not allowed to cuss, most especially in front of her children. It had been five years, three kids and a consistently dirty kitchen later, Helena is now a mother.Yep, she named their children after the people they lost to remind them each passing day that there is nothing that love cannot conquer. She and Zachary, the new hero of Mount Olympus hitched up and settled down. They were no longer sin eaters. After Zac saved the world, he asked for one thing and that was to be human. They got what they wanted and the grand parents from Olympus gets to visit the kids as often as they want as long as they promise not to spoil the kids. Their ch
“Oh my God! I found my gift!” “Yes, you did.” Zac was so happy for Helena, he truly was. For so long , all she wanted was to discover her gift because it had been one of her greatest frustrations and now that she had found hers. She was always envious of Maddox who got his gift early and the rest of the sin-eaters who did not had a hard time finding what they were endowed.he only wish that they were another gift, Damn, she had two. “Are you having second thoughts now in marrying me?” Helena knew how his mind works now, nbut she was wrong in thinking abut the second thoughts. “What? No. Just because your gifts are extra deadly combination for a soon to be husband---you think I am gonna be scared? Well, let me tell you one thing, Miss Mountbatten and you have to listen very carefully---I am not scared of you or you powers, I have my own powers too.” Zac was now a full pledged Elven Mage and a demi God, he has a range of powers that none of the other Gods had and his parents could ne
The cave that leads to the endless tunnel and cave where Cronos’ body and containment box was locked and double locked. Freya, made sure of that, she used all the ancient runes that she knew of and exhausted every containment magic she had to ensure that the door will never be found.Zachary was wounded and because a God had given her these wounds, it did not heal right away.his mother gave him some healing leaves to alleviate the pain because they won’t go off right now. They will be like mortal wounds. The whole nine yards. He was just glad that Helena stood by him through all these fights and battles and there is just one thing that he would want to hear from her right now.“Some day, huh?” he voiced out for everyone to hear.“Yeah, some day.” Zeus answered. He and Freya were now huddled up against each other. “Sooo, you two are like okay now?”As an answer to that, Zeus gave Freya a quick kiss on the lips which soon developed into a passionate kiss. Zachary covered Helena’s eyes
Zac’s POVHelena have this weird and crazy idea that I do not know if I should give it a shot or no. He was a quarter close to successfully freeing himself from the containment box. It is now or never really. I try to focus on the people I love. My family in Texas who by now might be calling the police and dead worried because me and my girlfriend had been missing. My biological parents who are now mourning the death of my uncle Hades who did his best to convince his wife to call it quits.Helena’s losses. Her entire family was taken from her. She deserved to be happy with a family of her own and he badly wanted to get out of here alive and to continue living his life.With this in mind, Zac runs and jumps inside the containment box to everyone’s horror.“You! What did you told him to do?” Freya panicked when she saw what Zachary chose to do.“I-I told him to use the bolt to shut the lid and weld it together. I did not ask him to jump into this own death!”Inside the containment box.
“We will.”Zeus’ voice boomed from the upper staircase. It was not just him. There was Poseidon and Hades and Freya.When Persephone saw her husband free, she was furious. ” Who let you out?”Hades took a few steps and touched a half creature and it quickly turned into a heap of dust. Those who were in a close proximity to the ascending God of the underworld took a few steps back.the Hades she left imprisoned in his own kingdom that looked sad, poor and unshaven was very different as he came closer.“Dear wife, you believed that you are smart, but I am cunning and I would like to thank my nephew here for finally following my orders to the T. ““You’re welcome uncle.” Zac said and he bowed low.“Impossible.”“I will tell you what is impossible, okay? Releasing the man who put us all in danger is impossible.”“Why, because you will try to stop me?”“We won’t do that. We are only here to get rid of the monstrosities that our father unleashed to make it fair and square. Zac will take care
Zeus and Freya was still arguing when they finally noticed that their son was gone and so was his bolt. He had a smug grin on his face when he finally found the heir that is worthy of the bolt.“What are you grinning at?” Freya said.“You know what this means, don’t you?” “That you are an asshole for underestimating my son?”“He is also my son.”“Oh, now he is?”“I have to annoy him so we don’t have to force him into wielding the bolt. He did i on his own accord and the bolt chose him!”“That was your parenting skill?!” Freya could not believe how Zeus handled this. It worked but it was annoying and Zeus was so proud of himself.“I am sorry for all the times that we wasted without each other, Freya. You know I still loved you. I never stopped.”Freya did not stop loving the God too. The truth was, she had never loved anyone after Zeus. Elves, like the creatures of the dark can only love once and her love of her life was unfortunately the God of thunder, the father of her son. How can