“I’m pretty sure Enea didn’t mean for you to stay in the room, son. You can stand outside.”
Eros grins. “Oh. Okay, I can do that.”
Zeus turns to everyone. “See? Again, I apologize. I wish I had more daughters. My Artemis isn’t as dramatic as my sons.”
“Oh please. Artemis is worse than us. She’s a pain in all of our asses. Remember when she moved in with Kostas? She wouldn’t let us have beds. We had to sleep on the floor!” Eros squints at his dad.
Enea, Giacomo and Panagiotis are laughing while Adonis, Apollo and Eros are looking at their dad like they’re offended. I’m really loving our extended family.
“I love you, mon rêve,” I say softly to her as we watch the brothers pout.
“I love you too,” she says as she hugs me tighter.
I get us the penthouse room again for the week. I feel like this would be better for my Genevieve. If we go back to my parents' house, they’ll hover over her, and I want her all to myself.
“What do you think about finding our own home?”
“Here in Storyville?”
“Oui. I mean if you want, we can live with my family, my parents won’t mind at all. So it’s up to you.”
Genevieve thinks about it for a minute.
“I love your family, but I wouldn’t say no to us finding our own place. But I’m also happy living with your family too. That’s how we did it back home.”
I chuckle. “Why don’t we look around and if we find something, we’ll take it. But it we don’t, we’ll take our time until we do.”
“I love that idea.” She smiles at me. “I need to take a shower. Do you think they’re going to kill Julian and Randall?”
“I don’t know. I suppose it depends on the outcome of those suspicious deaths. If they were responsible, they need to answer for it. If they just disappear, that could raise more questions.”
“That makes sense. I just want them to pay for everything. And I want Abigail to be okay.Can we find out if she’s okay? Randall made it seem like she was dead.”
“We can find out, and after your shower, we need to meet up with the family so that you can tell them what happened. I know they’ll have questions.”
Genevieve nods and heads to the bathroom. I follow her and get in the shower. I gently wash her and hold her for as long as she needs me to. This woman is everything to me and I thank God that she’s okay.
Genevieve
I’ve never had anyone take care of me like Michel does. Julian never made me feel so safe and loved. And after what happened today, he seems to know that all I need is for him to hold me and love me.
After we shower, we head to Sebastiano’s room to meet up with everyone. I go over to Adonis and hug him.
“I’m so glad you’re okay. When I saw Julian hit you, I was so worried.”
“I’m good, polar bears have hard heads.” He smiles as he hugs me back.
“And pudgy bodies. He had some cushion when he fell,” Eros says as he and Apollo high five each other.
“I can’t wait for you to meet my Artemis. I would say Ares too, but he’s just like his brothers. So I’ll apologize now for him.” Zeus sighs.
Seraphina and I start to tell them everything that happened.
“We could see most of what happed to you, up until they got you into the room. That’s where we need to know what happened,” Sebastiano tells us.
“Well, Genevieve is a badass. She kept them occupied so I could slip into the bathroom. It took longer that I would’ve liked. Because I couldn’t just turn and run, I can’t shift that fast. So I had to inch my way there. And I tried to check on Abigail on my way. But I couldn’t tell if she was alive, I thought I saw her breathing. But I couldn’t really crouch down to see. I told my snake to attack both men, but not to use our lethal venom.”
“See that’s where you’ve lost me. I thought all snake venom was lethal.”
