For a split second, Cronus looked like he was about to lunge for her, until he realized who she was. “You’re alive!” she wailed, holding me tight.
She must have felt my belly then, and blinking in confusion, pulled away to look down. “And PREGNANT!”
Her eyes went to Cronus, cheeks reddening as she put the pieces together about my four-month absence.
“Shauna! Hey. Yeah … alive and well. Crazy story…”
Fuck.#GiveMeAStory #ThatDidntInvolveTheUnderworld
Shauna frowned. “Your Instagram went dark. No pictures for months, cell dead, no contact at all. I filed a missing person’s report. You lost your apartment.”
Shit.
“Yeah, so, I’ve been … with this guy.” I pointed to Cronus. “In a remote … area … with no reception.”
She frowned. “For months? Without telling me?”
Dammit. “Well, yeah. Because it was for a reality TV thing and I signed an NDA. I’m sorry.”
She perked up at that. “LikeBachelorette?Love Island? Which one?”
And we were back. Because the insanity of me being on a reality television show paled in comparison to the actual truth. “Like a new one, where you go and get pregnant if you find your guy.”
She looked at Cronus and batted her eyelashes. “So cute. When does it air? I can’t wait.”
#Never
“I’ll let you know. Might be a few years, you know how that goes.”
She nodded. “Totally.”
“Food,” Cronus growled, and Shauna straightened a little.
“You guys wanna come in for lunch?”
I thought she’d never ask.
Twelve mozzarella sticks, three grilled cheese, and two cups of corn chowder later, I sat slouched in my booth, eyeing the dessert menu.
“Hyperion is calling us,” Cronus said, throwing some cash on the table. “We should get back. We need to make a plan to deal with Zeus.”
The rest of his money went into his pocket, and I wondered where it had come from to begin with. Was my Titan finally getting with the modern times?
#NoMoreDickGold #DickCashNow
With a sigh, I dropped the dessert menu, even though I really wanted a piece of carrot cake. Guess we should be dealing with Zeus sooner rather than later. Heaving myself up off the bench, I said goodbye to Shauna. She made me promise to text her every day, which reminded me I didn’t even know where my phone was—first time in my life. Then Cronus and I zapped ourselves out of the parking lot and back to Bali.
Chapter 7
“She zapped you away because you were thinking about food?” Rhea stared at my belly, the other ten Titans close by. It was a Titans-only party … we didn’t trust the gods right now. Who knew how far Zeus’ control of his minions went?
I nodded. “Yep, couple of breadsticks on my mind andbam, I was at the Crab Shack.”
“That’s one powerful baby,” Rhea said, rubbing the place where the bald spot would have been at the back of her head. Luckily, her resurrection seemed to have grown it back out.
#NoHardFeelingsRight
“Zeus has the sins and is infected with one or more of them,” Cronus said, getting the meeting started. “I don’t think he could handle carrying them all, and the most likely scenario is that he’s wearing a few in the necklace, the other remaining in the box.”
