At the Touch of Death by Carra Gina

Author:Carra, Gina [Carra, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-11T16:00:00+00:00

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Hebe holds a mug of hot chocolate as she stares through her bedroom door at her wife’s sleeping form. Guilt and fear pulse through her. Not fear of Hercules; despite everything, Hercules has never been cruel to her. No, Hebe fears herself.

The marriage had seemed like a good idea all those years ago. Megara had been offered as a wife to Hercules as a reward for when Hercules saved Thebes from…oh, who remembers. She’s saved Thebes so many times. It took the King much too long to offer a prize. Hebe considers that it must’ve been a shocking moment of gallantry for Hercules to deny a wife as a prize. They became friends, but Hercules refused for it to lead to marriage.

Everyone on Olympus knew Hebe to some extent. She got their drinks, laced with ambrosia to keep them young. She’s the one who poured Megara her first taste of ambrosia, commanded by Zeus to give Megara immortality and youth to make up for the terror caused by Hades. Hebe often tried to make small talk which most of the gods ignored. She’d spent time with them and she was trusted…but that doesn’t mean they knew her.

Hebe barely even knew herself. She’d slept with other gods and goddesses on Olympus and her fear only increased. She spent a night with Aphrodite, Aphrodite! , and it did nothing for her. She couldn’t borrow human vocabulary when she was still living in isolation on Olympus, but she knew she wasn’t interested in women.

The idea of marrying Hercules wasn’t exceedingly thrilling, but as soon as Zeus approached her about it, all she could see was a ticket out of servitude and a life, a future. She’d always been envious of the gods that got to work with the humans under their charge firsthand. She’d worked from a distance for so long, she jumped at the chance to get her hands dirty and do real work among them.

So she married Hercules. She had sex with her. She became her friend and grew an unpredictable yet present love with her. They were almost never on the same page, but they’ve been together for about thirty years now. It wasn’t a long time, not by any means, but Hebe was the god of youth and Hercules was so new to the world of gods. Hebe couldn’t help but be taken with her energy.

She was so different, so free. Yet they still couldn’t manage to vibe. Not like Hebe and Demeter.

Not even Demeter knows. Hebe has only spoken to one person about it—Persephone. Persephone had been comically persistent about figuring this out with Hebe. ‘Figuring this out’ meaning having sex. They tried…everything. The arrangement led to some resentment between Persephone and Hercules, mostly because Persephone couldn’t keep quiet about Hercules not giving her wife enough time and attention.

Hebe had to accept that she can’t love as freely as those around her. It felt so human to have her desire limited to one gender. She would watch Persephone flit from girl, to guy, to nymph, to human, to god.

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