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  Mae scoffed,

  “You, Ler, the god of the sea. How dare I turn you away like the mere mortals?” she said sarcastically.

  I cringed. Thinking about that night. It was all stupid now. The argument was dumb now that I think about it, and what was it all over again? Yeah, my inability to shut up, to step down, and be on the same level as a mortal and a bruised ego. The combination was a horrible one.

  “I mean, in my defense, you told me you didn’t want to love me anymore,” I teased.

  Mae chuckled.

  “You’re a fool if you believe that I could have ever stopped loving you. You were just hurt,” she read me like a book.

  “Oh yeah?” I retorted.

  “Yeah, hurt like a little bitch.” She said.

  Both Mae and I laughed at that. I shook my head.

  “Well, I’m sorry about what happened to you. I should’ve protected you and our child. You didn’t deserve to die, Medusa. You didn’t deserve to be called ugly when you are anything but. You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. I just have one question for you?”

  Mae cuddled more into my side.

  “Yeah?”

  I sighed.

  “Who told you that I didn’t love you? I need to know who drove this wedge between us. Like who could influence you that hard that you thought I could ever change the way I feel about you?” For centuries, I’ve been wanting to know this.

  Mae shrugged.

  “I don’t know. I don’t remember his face or anything. I just know that one day, I was in the market, and he spoke to me. He knew what was going on between us two because he looked me in the eye and said, If he loved you, he would give it all up just to be with you. His kingdom, his godship, his people, and even the women.”

  A heat surged through my body. There was an anger that I had never felt before as I stood up from the bed. I was on my feet so fast that I couldn’t think about anything else or that I was naked.

  “Wait, wait…” I said as I began pacing. “You mean to tell me, some motherfucker approached you in the market and said those words to you, then you just what, believed him?”

  Mae sat up and rolled her eyes.

  “That’s what you’re upset about? I made a mistake, okay?” she said nonchalantly.

  I scoffed.

  “You made a mistake?” I repeated after her. “A mistake, you say?” I laughed harder this time.

  “Oh God,” Mae said as she slowly got out of my bed. She stood in front of me with her hands up as a sign of surrender. “Ler, listen to me,” she began.

  I glared at her.

  “You want me to listen to you? Why?” I ran my fingers through my hair. “I don’t know, it just doesn’t make sense to me. You literally believed some fucker over me!” My accent was much more pronounced than it had been in a long time.

  Mae reached out as she grabbed my wrists, but her touch burned me just as much as her fucking lack of trust. I ripped my wrists out of her delicate hands, and she flew back to the bed, almost not making it. She sat up slowly, she was now pissed. She transformed right before my eyes.

  “You dare fucking shove me, Ler?” she gritted through her teeth. “Who the fuck do you think you are, huh? A big, bad fucking god!” She screamed out the last bit as she launched herself at me.

  I could’ve moved, but I wanted a fight, and she was offering it.

  She punched me. Hard. In the face.

  I shoved her again back into the bed, and she landed in a heap.

  “I’m not going to fight you, Medusa,” I stated. “You want to fight me, but you’re the one who fucked up. Your lack of trust is the stupidest thing you’ve ever achieved or rather not achieved.”

  She was now on her feet. Glaring up and down at me. She cocked an eyebrow.

  “Are you calling me stupid, Ler? The same fucking asshole who ripped through villages of innocent people when he couldn’t find a piece of pussy?”

  I growled.

  “Don’t!” I shouted. “Don’t make this about something else. You know damn well that you’re not some piece of pussy. You’re the fucking love of my life! You sat there and believed some motherfucki-,” I couldn’t even finish my sentence as I screamed out like a lunatic.

  The years and years on end of torture of having her ripped away from me was catching up.

  “Stop yelling, you psycho!” Mae yelled.

  I shut my mouth narrowing my eyes at her.

  “Admit it,” I said. “Admit that it wasn’t all my fault. Had you trusted in my love for you, you’d never believe a stranger. I have never stepped out on you. When I met you, that was it. I didn’t want anything or anyone else but you. I was set. That was all for me. You were my queen.” I said.

  “Were?” She asked as she gave me a small smile.

  I rolled my eyes, smiling even though I knew I wanted to smash something.

  “Are,” I corrected myself. “You’ll always be my queen despite how much you get on my nerves.”

  Mae came closer stopping only when her arms were wrapped around my body,

  “You can always fuck it out of me, ya know?” she teased.

  I cupped her face in my large hands, leaning down to kiss her. I hovered right over her lips, needing her to know something before I devoured her.

  “You’ll always be mine, bhanrigh.”

  Chapter 11

  Mae-Lynn

  I sighed.

  I was hiding. Hiding from Graer, hiding from his declaration. From the way that he made me feel. I shouldn’t have been hiding. I should’ve shouted from the mountain top how he made me feel, but it scared me. I was scared as hell, I didn’t even know him long yet here I was, vulnerable. As Medusa, I understood his feelings, but as Mae-Lynn, I was terrified.

  My family never treated me well. They took advantage of me loving them fiercely and always made me feel horrible, on top of how Athena turned me into a disgusting looking creature. It was hard for me. I wasn’t insecure, but damn, give a girl a break. I was a strong woman who could handle anything but feelings. These damn things were a hindrance. I felt too young for them, but at the same time, I felt too old for them. Unfortunately, what shined over them was the fact that my love for him was just right. I had never felt like something could erupt from me, from my being. Every time I saw Graer, I saw me. It was like looking into a mirror.

  What didn’t make it better was that we didn’t even finish the game between us. We started something yet couldn’t finish. Even my best friend, Ruby, asked me what was wrong with me. After I had sex with Graer, I was over the moon, but when I went back to my apartment with Ruby, fear gripped me by the throat and made sure that I couldn’t breathe. It kept me prisoner to its constant memories, and nothing seemed good enough to trigger me out of it. I wanted to escape, yet I wanted to stay hostage to it.

  A week. One whole fucking week was how long I was without Graer, and each night, I woke up with cold sweats. I’m sure he knew he could find me, but each time he caught my eye, I would run off, and he never chased me. I wondered why, but now as I sat in the campus cafeteria and that was a big mistake because the moment I looked up, Graer was walking up to me like a man on a mission. I wanted to drool because he was sexy with his hair loose. He wasn’t smiling though, and because of that I couldn’t help it. Memories… All those memories that I thought I forgot momentarily came rushing back in and hit me so hard I could’ve stumbled had I not been adamant on picking another fight with Graer.

  In this strange world, this weird life of ours. We found each other again. I just know that I was tired of wasting so much time not being about to make love to this man. Being able to explore in this odd world that we found ourselves in. Round and round, the world turned, but yet he and I were at a constant standstill. Not in the sense of our feelings, but in the way that we lost each other. We never fully recovered. For me, time stopped, and for him, it went on without him. I could tell by the way he watched me; he wasn’t certain about us. I don’t blame him; I was confused
by how intense my feelings still were for him. If anything, how was it that me, being brought here in this time, this century, this year, changed it all?

  I mean, I loved him like crazy as a priestess but this? This was some bullshit. Because, right now, I could die for this man, and he has never taken me out on a date. I couldn’t even say that it was due to my age, I was as old as he was, well not as old, yet my love for him felt like it was formed in the sky by something higher than the gods could ever achieve together. I sighed, looking at Graer as he telepathically said what he said all those many years ago.

  You will never rid me of you, Medusa. I will follow you until you’re so sick of it, you’ll want to end yourself over my love.

  I glared at him; this man made me fall even harder this time around. I was so sure of it. This fucking bastard.

  Chapter 12

  Graer

  I guess Mae didn’t like my words because she stood meeting me in the middle of the cafeteria and squinted her eyes at me. She gritted her teeth as if remembering something that she wasn’t supposed to or well, did I ever really know with her?

  “What?” I asked as I shrugged my shoulders. “You’re being so odd tonight. What’s with you?”

  She ran her fingers through her hair.

  “I just…” She started, sighing as she looked up at me. “Those words, they just, they remind me of how happy we were. They remind me of how much we’ve lost over the years. Centuries even, and I’m angry, Graer. Angry as hell!” She lashed out.

  This woman would be the end of me.

  “What the fuck are you angry about now?” The edge in my voice was clear as day. I should’ve been the angry one. She was avoiding me. ME!

  Mae pushed me, and it didn’t faze me. She pushed at my chest again, and I still wasn’t budging. She was angry with me and I knew that, so I kept my mouth shut so that she could vent. She let out a blood-curdling scream that hurt my ears, yes, but they hurt my heart even more.

  “How could you do this to me?!” She screamed, not caring who was watching us, “I told you to leave me alone. I didn’t want to love you again, but you made me do it. You made me into a fool once more, and I will never forgive you for this!” She shouted all of that, and none of her thumping on my chest even made an impact, but her words, those words awakened me much more than they should’ve.

  “You will never forgive me, you say?” My voice thundered causing the ground to shake. I nodded my head as if I was acknowledging something. “You dare come spew some angry words to my face as if I would be okay with it once more? One time wasn’t enough for you, was it? You told me you hated me once, and I dare you.” I narrowed my eyes as I leaned into her face all up in her space. “I dare you to tell me you hate me again because if you do… Oh darling if you do, I will destroy everything and everyone in this vicinity. I will obliterate this entire nation just to prove my point. For once in your life, admit the truth that you really want to! Scream it out for the world to hear you because I am sick and tired of your lies, Mae.”

  Her eyes widened, with the emotion that I hadn’t seen on her for a long time. The only other time I saw that look in her eyes was when she first met me. She knew from the moment I laid eyes on her that I was a god, one she wasn’t on her knees worshipping, but yet she ended up on her knees as she took every inch of me into her mouth. The fear… I craved that fear from her, it drove me, and I got high on it. Ah! This was sweeter than any other emotion that she was giving me. She could give me anger, sadness, happiness and even erotic displays as I dove deeper and deeper inside of her but this… This was what made her so much more perfect for me. Before she could say anything, I froze time, getting us out of the public eye and making sure to speed time so that they would never notice what happened when we disappeared in front of them.

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  We landed in my room, and she broke away from me. She stood in front of me this time when her eyes met mine. I knew she had finally realized it all. That this love was forever.

  “I-,” She began to talk, but I growled instead as I reached out with my right hand and clasped it around her neck tight. Her breath caught as my hand tightened around her neck, and her eyes fluttered as she tried to speak.

  “Baby,” I cooed as she gripped my wrist with both of her hands.

  She wanted out, but I shook my head as I bit my bottom lip. I snapped a finger on my loose hand as a chair appeared behind me and as I took a seat. I unclasped my kilt freeing my member as I sat down.

  Mae looked at me with fear, anger, and lust in her eyes, just how I liked her to look. She shouldn’t have worn this dress. I smiled wickedly as I yanked her panties, lowering her down on my dick. Her entire body shivered as she came down, inches by inches swallowing me whole in the process. I groaned as her hands let go of my wrists, moving to situate themselves on my shoulders. She began to move timidly, and I shook my head as I stared into her eyes. Her eyes seemed to want to change colors, but they hesitated. I gripped her waist and her neck. I showed her how to move on top of me as I maneuvered her body up and down. A moan escaped her lips no matter what, as I shut my eyes, throwing my head back, getting lost in her very essence.

  “Oh, love…”

  I harshly spoke. Mae moaned again, this time deeper and much more guttural than before.

  I looked up at her, she was no longer just Mae, this was my baby Medusa. I smiled once more as her eyes changed colors. Letting go of her neck, I let her take control as her nails dug into the skin on my shoulders. I knew she broke skin, and I loved it. It made me even higher than I was a moment ago. She began to ride me rougher with each slam, each slap echoing in the room, yet I didn’t care. I watched her as she watched me. This was the moment that we both knew we were afraid of. Gone was the mask that we both put on, we were exposed to each other. We saw each other for what we really were. The innocent priestess who fell for the lost god who traveled seas and seas looking for something. He hadn’t known what that something was, but when he saw her, he knew it was she that he was searching for. He didn’t need to travel anymore because he had found his home and she was it.

  “I love you…” Mae whispered to me as she continued to assault my body. “Oh, I love you, Ler.” A name I loved more than any other coming from her lips. I missed it, escaping her lips.

  “I love you too Medusa, I will always love you.” Those words invoked both of our orgasms, and we couldn’t hold it in much longer as we joined each other in bliss.

  Chapter 13

  Mae-Lynn

  I knew I was asleep, but what I didn’t expect was to actually be dreaming free of Graer for the first time since I met him. I turned, somehow feeling Graer by my side even though I was supposed to be in a deep sleep.

  Clearly, that wasn’t going to happen. The minute I groaned, I was transported somewhere else. I was confused. I was in the water, just floating. I sighed as the water under me made me feel like this was home. I couldn’t understand what was going on but then a voice. A sultry, yet commanding voice spoke and woke me out of the peace on the water. I didn’t see anything at first, but then it’s like I was submerged under the water, yet I wasn’t panicking. I felt safe, whole in this place and then I was upright. I gasped as I stood there facing a throne that shined so brightly.

  I looked around; it was a classical throne room, but no one was in there. Gold upon gold was all over. The floor was made of gold, every part of this room shined like crazy, but I didn’t get a chance to explore as that voice interrupted again, and now, I could see her as clear as day. She wasn’t facing me, so I couldn’t see her face, but the long red dress that she wore had a train that trailed past me, and I was afraid to move for fear that I’d step on it. Her hair was down her back, flowing past her butt.

  “There’s something you should know, Uncle,” I heard her words.

  She was facing the throne chair. A chair fit for a king. My eyes finally made it to the chair, and I gasped. It was Graer… wait no, this was the true form of Poseidon, god of the se
a. He was taller for some reason, his hair was curlier, longer down his back, darker, really dark. It was midnight blue with silver streaks, and his eyes was as dark as the night sky. His ancient tattoos seemed much darker on his pale skin. His body was buffer, his shoulders seemed to expand wider, his abs seemed much more definite, toner. The way the muscles looked to ripped in his arms and the way his arm flexed when he ran his fingers through his long hair while he held his trident in the other.

  “What else could you have fucking done to me, Athena?” Graer said. His voice laced with frustration and impatience.

  I heard a sniffle, one that shocked me. I mean, she was a goddess. Why would she be crying? What did she do?

  “I, I…” She cleared her throat. “I interfered in your love life, and I never should’ve done so.” She started.

  “With what?” He replied. His voice booming off the walls. “The turning Medusa into something that she never truly asked you for and then on top of that you made her feel insecure. You made her feel like I wouldn’t love her because she turned into another creature, but you know that when a god falls in love, that’s it!” He let out.

  Athena let out a frustrated sigh,

  “I know, I know… It’s just. There’s more to it than that. I didn’t mean to, but I made a mistake. The handsome stranger…”

  Graer was confused.

  “Who?”

  “The one who told Medusa that if you loved her, you’d give everything up? That was me. I transformed into someone she had never met before,” Graer stood up, twirling his trident. “Wait!” I heard panic in her voice.

  “Wait for what? It was you? You did this to me!” The entire room started shaking.

  “Listen to me!” Athena screamed. “I didn’t mean it in a bad way, I thought I was doing the right thing. I thought…”