LYSSANDRA

  After the celebration, there was a bed, waiting for us in Paris’ old room, dressed in white. And both of our faces had turned red after everything that had happened today.

  They were trying to punish me. And they offered me mortality. Maybe in their eyes, it was a punishment. Because they have never felt like being mortal. They had never wished to be one. But I had. And I would be after that night, as I was promised to return with Paris to Cairo, to find my student.

  But it looked like we had to rest one last time as immortals.

  My fingers turned sweaty with Paris trying to look away from me.

  Why was he so afraid?

  ‘’Let’s take a bath’’I said, showing the mess on his clothes he was in after Ares had vomited from all the nectar he had drunk.

  And both got inside the hot water, and Paris remained silent. Our bodies were bear but none dared to face each other. Why were we so ashamed? So afraid of our own skin? Was it because the last time? The time that we were both vulnerable? The time that he left me all alone in the valley? And now we were once again, together, relaxing with the perfumes and oils touching our flesh. And our faces were deeply red from both the warmth and the shame. The secrets that we were trying to hide. My pride was hiding my secrets. My guilt. What was he trying to do that was making him look so guilty?

  ‘’What’s the matter?’’ I asked him and swam closer to him, and he tried to back away.

  ‘’It’s alright, you can tell me, you know.’’

  ‘’I missed you so much’’His lips mumbled. ‘’Every time I am trying to ask you about something, my inner being weakens, I don’t know how to-’’

  ‘’Let’s rest together for the night.’’

  He began talking about his punishment, trying to make sense of the pain. And I told him what he missed around the world. How many gods were born, and how many more vanished.

  ‘’You spent so many years around the world’’He sighed.’’Did you ever fell in love?’’

  My eyes opened wide, and I tried to look at the night sky.

  ‘’I tried.’’ I brushed my forearm and Paris sighed.

  ‘’Oh.’’

  ‘’But I couldn’t do it. I felt nothing each time that I was trying’’

  And like a lost puppy, he was now trying to hold his smile. Was he jealous for a second?

  ‘’You know’’I moved my index finger on my lips. ‘’Maybe, I will try and become a man again and gain a harem of both men and women.’’

  His brow arched. ‘’Will you let me join?’’ He tried to lean closer, but I pushed him away.

  ‘’Apologies, lord of light, no lost causes on my harem’’

  And he looked at me with a childish pout. ‘’So, I will drown them all’’He insisted.

  ‘’So, what if I will take a wife?’’He looked at me with a smile.’’Or a suitor?’’

  ‘’I will burn them and you to the ground’’I replied with a cold glare. And with the moonlight reflecting to his gaze, Paris smiled.

  ‘’So, it’s settled, isn’t it.’’

  I chuckled. ‘’I suppose so,’’

  ‘’We have to remain together’’He sang.

  I nodded slowly, and my fingers entered his knuckles and rested my head down to his shoulder.

  ‘’For the greater good of course.’’

  Finally, I could feel myself, turning back to the person I had long forgotten. I could feel safe around my skin, my organs, and soul.

  And our gazes met. He was in such pain. And yet, so was I. Maybe we both were looking at each other’s suffering, trying to reflect like a mirror. And maybe, there might be hope out of this.

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  His hand embraced my cheek and pulled me closer for a kiss. He tasted, so sweet like honey and flowers, with the scent of daffodils coming out from his golden locks.

  His fingers began to search around my body, each curve, and with his mouth moving even hungrier. My body was burning up with each and every one of his embraces. How long has it been? How long have we both waited? His nose brushed my jaw with his lips, moving right to my neck, giving me shivers down to my spine.

  ‘’Are you afraid, little Oracle?’’He scoffed, and his eyes looked back to me, slowly, with his fingers grabbing my chin.

  And an idea hit my head.’’Can you turn to your normal form?’’

  And he blinked, confused. ‘’Why?’’

  My thoughts could not escape from my mouth, so I told him the other part of the truth. No matter the form, no matter what he once had, this man in front of me was the mortal that I fell in love with. Even if the world forgets those moments, even if they forget that specific moment, the one who was in front of me was Paris. A smart, cunning man, loving to help other, impulsive, with charms that could bring his enemies to their knees for him

  ‘’I love you’’ jumped to him with my legs wrapped around his waist. ‘’I love you, Paris, and I want to show you that I do with both of your sides.’’

  Paris looked at me with an empty stare. As he was now certain of what I actually wanted to see.

  ‘’I remember that you always had a peculiar taste’’He laughed, and a bright light appeared around his body. His form grew more with his fire pit hair glowing in the darkness, and the deer horns and fox ears popping right above his crown. Just like the time I saw him in Perseus' palace. He was then a god that I should be afraid of him. Instead, I could still see his mortal side. I could still believe it was Paris inside him. Because everything that he was, it was the truth. A terrifying, cruel, and yet so beautiful truth that I could not stop staring.

  No matter the form, no matter how the fates will fabricate our future, no matter how different our lives could have been or will be...I would always find him. And he will always find me.

  And so, his sharp, long fingers were caressing my face.

  ‘’Is this what you-’’His words were cut short as I kept looking at his bright citrine complexion. There was a sharp laugh coming from him.’’Oh, if only you could see your expression.’’His blazing eyes kept staring at me with admiration, and his sharp teeth began biting my neck.

  ‘’Oh’’My lips parted, and I felt my flesh burning up.

  Fight woman, fight. My lips now moved back to his small fox ear, trying to rest my nose close to it with my fingers, grabbing him by the horns.

  He gasped out, letting beautiful music come from his lips, and his tongue popped out.

  I clapped my hands together as I saw how long that tongue of his was.

  Control yourself, don’t.

  One more jump of mine, pinned him down to the bed, his eyes all shocked that I could manage to do it to such a big creature.

  ‘’What are you planning now?’’ His lips curved into a wide smile, and I was finally removing my garments, showing him everything. Everything that I wanted him to touch, everything that was aching for one more moment.

  ‘’Beg’’ I commanded him.

  And Paris' eyes opened wide and showed his free hands, trying to tell me that he didn’t need my permission. But I arched one eyebrow.

  So, the god gave up. ‘’Please, let me touch you’’

  I could not help but smile at his pathetic sight again and leaned closer to him, his long fingers cupping my breast and his lips right to my stomach.

  I wanted to scream out loud, trying to get my voice from my throat while his lips were right inside my…

  ‘’Oh, shit’’I finally let out, feeling his long tongue wrapped all around my core, my back arching.

  ‘’Such a vulgar tone that you have.’’Muffled the god. ‘’And such a…’’

  He moved away, letting kisses and small licks around my inner thigh.

  ‘’Delicious body you have.’’

  ‘’Shut up’’I grunted and grabbed him by the horns and shoved him back inside me.

  He kept his mouth so close, playing with me, kissing me with his fingers, and caressing my chest.

  And I had to repay him. I tried to stand up, but he grabbed me by the hand, and my mouth fell to his, tasting now my own core.

  ‘’Not yet’’he said between my lips. ‘’Not yet, no, no, we have the entire night for it.

  ‘’And you won’t leave, right?’’ I asked with a mean smile.

  And he tried to laugh and moved his lips on my knuckles. ‘’I am where I was always supposed to be.’’ His voice was whisering with a meldy getting out of his throat.

  ***

  When we were about to pass out, the sun was finally appearing slowly, right below us.

  I slowly moved away from Paris, who was forming back to his human form, and I faced the window.

  How beautiful the sun was, how warm, around my skin, kissing me with his soft threads. I wanted to enjoy this moment a little more.

  ‘’Lyssandra?’ ’Paris's voice called me, and looking back, I noticed that he was holding a bright red apple, trying to think if he would throw it to me or not. What future was his eyes seeing when he was staring at the apple? What will our fates be?

  ‘’I will catch it,’’I answered him with a soft smile.

  And his lips opened wide with his hand finally throwing the apple at me, making one more change in our fates, shifting every power around the world.