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discuss
this?”
    She shook her head. “We discussed the
time people knew about. Who would know about this?”
    The thought of fucking her made his
cock harder, but he didn’t want to do that to his emotions
again.
    “ I don’t want to
complicate things further.”
    He thought she would object again, but
she didn’t. “Okay. I’ll try to think of something.”
    He walked down the hall to her
bathroom, questioning whether he was right in turning her away and
wondering what the Fates had planned.
     

Chapter Two
     
    Eris opened the door for Aphrodite.
The blonde goddess looked up and smiled at her.
    “ May I come
in?”
    “ Yes.” She stepped aside
and then closed the door. “Let’s go into the living
room.”
    Aphrodite sat on the loveseat, while
Eris took a seat on the couch next to Cosmos. She rubbed the cat’s
back as she began to purr.
    Eris glanced up. “Since you’ve come to
see me, you’ll have to tell me what you want.”
    “ That’s what I want to
know. What do you want?”
    Eris wasn’t sure what Aphrodite’s
intentions might be. She seemed passive, which was unlike her. It
made Eris cautious.
    “ I don’t want anything.
And I haven’t done anything wrong.”
    “ You put a spell on
Hermes.” The goddess still showed little emotion, as if the fact
she’d just stated had little significance.
    “ Yes. And what harm has
that done? I didn’t make you two fuck.”
    Aphrodite took a breath. “But what did
you intend to do?”
    Eris wanted to laugh. “Get
him to fuck me .
That’s really it.”
    “ That can’t be all you
want.”
    “ Why not? He’s incredibly
desirable, and you’ve said dozens of times how good he
is.”
    Aphrodite didn’t answer.
    “ Come on. Why
not?”
    Aphrodite gave a slight shrug that
looked a bit too stiff, as if she were actually quite tense under
her mask of nonchalance. “Well, I suppose I assumed it wouldn’t be
that simple.”
    “ Well, it is. I didn’t
want to be invited to Eros’ wedding, but I went because it would
seem I was slighting you if I didn’t.” Eris shook her head and
finally laughed. “Do you even know why I wasn’t invited to that
wedding?”
    “ Peleus and Thetis?”
Aphrodite raised her eyebrows. “Well, no. Not really.”
    Eris moved over on the couch to be
closer to the loveseat. “Thetis was my friend. Zeus wanted her, but
she resisted him. I told her she should give herself to him. He’s
boring and egotistical, but he’s marvelous in bed and she could
have had anything she wanted. She didn’t listen though. When he
heard the prophecy about Thetis having a son who would eclipse his
father, he sent her away and gave her to Peleus as a bride. She was
so angry and ashamed at being married off to a mortal she didn’t
want to see me.”
    “ But it wasn’t your
fault.”
    Eris shrugged. “She needed someone to
be mad at. She didn’t want to get married and didn’t care one way
or another about having a son. That all changed afterwards, but she
was not a happy bride. She thought I would come to the wedding and
gloat.” She smiled. “I would have been smug, but I would have been
respectful. The Fates had great plans for that boy.”
    “ You made him the hero of
a war that spanned his lifetime. He profaned the temple of Apollo
though. You should have let him be a great king
instead.”
    Eris wanted to roll her eyes, but she
resisted. “So I’m so powerful I knew a war would start because of
what I did? Who do you think gave me the idea? You think I cared
about you three bitches fighting? I agreed to perform a task for
the Fates because I was angry.”
    Aphrodite narrowed her eyes. “I’m not
here to fight about this. I’m here to help Hermes.”
    Chaos hopped onto Eris’ lap. She
stroked him under the chin. “I’m not trying to fight. I am trying
to tell you to stop judging me. Clotho and Atropos looked on as
Lachesis carved the words ‘to the fairest’ into that apple. When
was the last time you visited the