Page 235 of The Gods Order

“Their creation began inside the original Gods Binding.”

“What?” My head twitches with confusion, maybe a touch of denial. “I thought my dad watched over the Binding and made sure none of the others really went near it.”

“He did, but not for this. He knew what had to be done, and as much as he hated it, he allowed it. That is the place where the gods bound their powers together properly for the first time. The Binding’s creation is the foundation of this realm. It was never meant to be used for personal gain. It was never meant to be a place of indulgence. It was sacred.”

My stomach twists.

“And the four of them went in and what? Defiled it…”

“Yes. Kira, Calista, Rella, and Sabe entered the Binding together. They combined their powers, allowing their essences to intertwine in a way that they haven’t since its very creation. And they were…intimate.”

The thought of them doing…that…inside the Binding makes me feel sick.

“I don’t say this because I don’t think you’re telling me the truth, but Creation claims she was the one who came up with the idea of how to create the guys and I just can’t wrap my mind around her being okay with that. I mean, Derivius already told me Rella had sex with Kira, but like…they were all together?”

She glances to the side with just as much disgust on her face as there is on mine. I’m not sex-shaming an orgy in any way. I’m the last person who can talk. My disgust stems from the fact that those three goddesses were supposed to be in love with three different gods.

“Yes. Like I told you, Sabe was supposed to plant seeds of ideas. Calista was the one who wove a possibility. Everyone had a task and knew what they were supposed to do with their power. Rella was to align their goal. Sabe was to…get everyone comfortable. Calista was supposed to create the vessels. Kira’s job was simple.”

Yeah, I don’t need that detailed for me.

I cringe and nod for her to continue.

“Kira shared himself with all three goddesses, but the part that changed everything was not simply what happened between them. It was what Calista witnessed.”

My head tilts to the side a fraction.

“You mean she witnessed the man she ‘loves’ have sex with two other goddesses?”

She mumbles an uh-huh before continuing.

“Calista knew Kira and Sabe had been close and knew they had their private affairs. She had never seen them together, though. When they entered the Binding, Calista believed they were there for duty. For creation. For something greater than themselves. The creation was supposed to begin with Sabe and she was meant to have one child. But when Calista saw the way Kira and her interacted, she became furious. What was supposed to be an act of duty had become something personal, familiar, and too comfortable for her liking.”

“So she…” I lead when she pauses for a long moment.

“She wouldn’t complete what she had agreed to and refused to make a vessel in Sabe’s womb. She, of course, didn’t tell Kira or Sabe that.”

I scoff.

“Because she was jealous.”

Don’t get me wrong, I’d be fucking jealous too.

I also would never in my damn life agree with something like that in the first place.

“Jealous, hurt. She felt betrayed. She couldn’t separate what she felt from what they had agreed to do.”

I can see it so clearly. Literally, I can picture her eye twitching and head cocking to the side at a creepy angle while she watched the two of them together.

“If that was the case, how did she ever get pregnant with Mellcom?”

“By natural conception. By the time she fell pregnant, the boys were two. What was the point in stopping her ability to conceive then?”

I grunt and let my eyes close for a minute so I can process that.

“And Rella?”

“Unlike Sabe, Rella never allowed herself to forget why they were there. She treated it as a duty. A sacrifice. Nothing more. Rella didn’t show an ounce of emotion during the act. Calista, although still burning with jealousy, decided to create a single vessel rather than the two agreed upon.”