The Stone Queen (The Dark Queens Book 9) by Winters Jovee

Author:Winters, Jovee [Winters, Jovee]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Publisher: JoveeWintersPublishing
Published: 2019-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Ares

It’d been months since I’d last seen the little bird. My duties to home had kept me long away from her. But more than that, I also sensed that I should not allow myself to become infatuated by a human.

I saw what that had done to my father, time and again. The mess he’d made of his marriage by not keeping his damned cock in his pants.

Things with Aphrodite were at their worst, and I was trying to make things work for us. But if I was being honest, my attempts were half-hearted at best. War kept me often away from Olympus, and the rumors amongst the golden ones were that Dite and my own brother were starting to become much more than mere friends.

Mother was quite vexed at the thought of it and took any opportunity she had to let me know it. “You should go to her home right now and fuck her until she forgets his name entirely. Use all your powers at your disposal to make that girl mind to whom she belongs, Ares.”

Mother, crass as ever, was glaring at me from the corner of my room. I preferred darkness to light in my own home, enjoying the coolness of Nyx’s domain over that of Apollo. My room was decorated nearly all in black, all of it tasteful, much of it handpicked or designed by Aphrodite decades ago, though she warmed my bed less and less often these days.

And while it bothered me mightily, a side of me wasn’t sure it bothered me quite enough. “Mother, don’t be vulgar.”

She sneered. Hera was still a beautiful and powerful woman, with hair the color of richest chocolate, full of riotous curls she always pinned back. She wore a crown of stars upon her head, signifying all her children. As goddess of mothers, she had a look that always bespoke strength and the wisdom of the mother, though it was artifice. Beautiful as she was, there was none of the kindness associated with her that a good mother held in spades.

Hera was petty, spiteful, and vindictive at the best of times.

She growled in a melodious tone that again was at odds with who the woman really was. “Well, Ares, it must be said. If you won’t see to your home, then I shall be forced to step in.”

I rolled my eyes. There would be no more sleeping in for me this afternoon. I’d only just returned after a two-week sojourn on Earth, helping to battle a terrible war and turn the tide in favor of my chosen victors, the North. It’d been a bloody and brutal thing, but my arm and sword had finally given them the impetus they’d needed to hurdle the impossible.

I wished I could say my reasons for being there had been altruistic, but they’d not been. I’d been plagued by the demons of doubt these past many months. My crumbling affair with Aphrodite burned in my heart, with questions about who I was versus who I wanted to be.

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