#DelusionLand #TimeForAFamilyVacationThere
“Ten weeks pregnant with a baby Titan. Okay. Great.”
I was fine. Totally fine.
Cronus looked at the other two. “Can you give us a moment?”
They nodded. “We’ll stay close,” Hyperion said. “The Erynomus is on this level now, so we need to hurry this along.”
Cronus’ jaw tightened and he watched them for a second as they walked over to a dense patch of trees. Snapping his attention back to me, he helped me stand on my own feet again before he unearthed a water tree. Breaking off a branch, he placed it to my lips.
“I know this is a lot to take in right now, but I just want you to know that I’ll be there every step of the way with you.” His promise was so sincere, and I was such an emotional wreck, I started to cry.
My mind went to the Google search page I’d first done on him: “Is it true you swallowed all your babies after they were born?”
Cronus grimaced. “Jesus, Maisey. Zeus spread that rumor. Come on now.”
Right. Okay. Got a little sidetracked.
“So … you’ll help me raise the baby. Eighteen years?” I was suddenly feeling insecure that he’d stay around. We were still in a new relationship and I wasn’t sure I could raise a baby on my waitress salary.
He chuckled. “Eighteen? Titans live forever, and that’s exactly how long I’ll stick around, Maisey. Forever.” Leaning forward, he captured my lips in a scorching kiss that had me wishing we could start making a baby again. “I’m not going anywhere,” he said as he pulled away. “It’s you and me, always.”
“I’m so happy I got drunk and accidentally used my blood to open your prison,” I said in a teary rush. “It’s a love story as old as time.”
#NotConventional #ButSeriously #FuckConvention
A stomping sound broke my bliss.
Rhea shrieked, “Erynomus!”
Cronus’ eyes flashed with anger. “Let’s kill this demon and get the hell out of here.”
Chapter 4
“Kill him?” I asked, stuttering over the words. I mean, it wasn't like I hadn't seen plenty of death since hooking up with the Titan of death and destruction—that wasn't Cronus’ literal title but it felt like it should be. “Shouldn't we just take these coins and get the freak out of here. I mean, seriously, we don't have to stick around.”
He chuckled. “Fuck. I have missed you so much. Just so you know, when you arrived, I was working out how to rig the portals so they might take us back the other way, up through the lands. I refuse to spend a hundred years getting to you only to find you'd died from old age.”
The fact that Cronus and our baby were going to live forever, and I had maybe a good seventy more years—if I kept up with yoga—ahead of me, was something we would have to discuss later. But for now, we were about to be attacked by a bull monster.
“We’re together now,” I said in a rush. “Let’s keep it that way.”
Hyperion and Rhea dashed forward, standing between us and the raging beast.
“Why aren't we just leaving again?” I asked, as we scrambled toward them, Cronus putting his body between mine and the scary thing.
#ImGonnaMarryThisGuy #GetMeToVegas
“Because it’s our fault the Erynomus was released,” Cronus said, “and this time he’s apparently come back with more brains than before. Soon he will decimate this underworld and souls will suffer. I can't let that happen.”
Dammit. Why did he have to have a good heart? I mean, it was great and all, but right now I might have been okay if the grouchy asshole Titan that’d first popped out of the prison was back.
“Yeah, I guess that makes sense,” I said, pressing my hand against my stomach. “He definitely wasn’t mindless, despite Hyperion lulling me into a false sense of stupid, originally.”
Cronus smiled, turning his dark good looks into something devastating.
His hand landed on top of mine, both of us protecting our child. I’d done it by instinct. I couldn't believe how much I already felt protective over the tiny little bump.
