you know who I am?” he said with soft menace. “My opinion is the only one that you should care about.”
“What I meant to say,” I started, swallowing roughly, “was that your opinion, while very important, is not relevant right now. Karen is here to serve us food and drinks and help us in an emergency. She’s someone we need. Let’s be nice to Karen.”
Something told me Karen was going to spit in our food after the prostitute remark, but I’d deal with that later.
Some of the fire died from his face and I wondered how scary he was at full power. I leaned over and he seemed a little startled that I’d moved so close. “Why are your powers not at full strength?” I whispered, thankful the loud engines added an extra layer of obscurity to our conversation. “Is it because of me? Is my humanness bringing us down?”
Cronus’ stare was deadpan, and it was starting to hurt my feelings that he didn’t find me funny. I personally thought I was hilarious. And so did most of my Instagram followers.
With an annoyed huff, he answered, “It’s because I was stuck in the prison realm for so many years. It’s designed to drain the power of a god, which is the only way they could hold me. It will take some time to rejuvenate my energy.”
Huh, fancy that.
“Glad I’m not a burden.”
Cronus made a disparaging sound. “I never said that, human.”
I snorted. “Right, right, you’d kill me if you could, blah blah. Wake me when we get to Greece.”
His glare was back full force. “What is that? When you act like you’re joking but you’re not. You’re really being a bit—”
“It’s called sarcasm.” I cut him off before he could call me a bitch in public. Karen might be peeing in his apple juice later if she heard that one.
“I don’t like sarcasm,” he growled.
I frowned. “Bummer, big guy. That’s my first language. Night, night.”
Turning over, I gave the big oaf my back and tucked in for a long nap. Flying first class was totally worth it. We’d starve to death the second we landed, but completely worth it to be able to stretch out my legs with this down blanket.
#Humble #Blessed
In minutes I was fast asleep.
After landing in Olympia, we chartered a boat to Agassi, which was some beach on Zakynthos. I might or might not have developed a slight crush on this big asshole the second he started talking to the locals in Greek. Something about a man who knew a foreign language just did it for me. Luckily, this was a tourist town and most everyone spoke some version of broken English, so I wasn’t completely in the dark.
We were literally using our last hundred dollars to charter this boat. My stomach was rumbling just thinking about our next meal. This mountain of a god next to me ate four times what I did, so our food budget needed to be plentiful. Maybe someone here could give us money for that giant dick ... gold bar … he had.
As the boat picked up speed, I asked the guy piloting it if he minded me changing below. I had packed my pink and lime green Calvin Klein bikini just in case and I figured this would be a great place for Insta pics. I could take fifty of them on our trip and release five a week to spread them out. I was totally hitting 20K.
He nodded and gestured to the steps leading down below. This boat was legit. I wondered if I could convince Cronus to take a pic of me spread out on the hull of it. If he said no, the driver definitely would; he seemed cool. Cronus followed me as I made my way through the luxurious interior, thankfully waiting outside as I quickly changed in the bathroom. This whole not able to be more than five feet apart thing was annoying as fuck. I topped the look off with my large white Jackie O glasses—mostly to hide my no-sleep, hangover, travel bags under my eyes.
Stepping out of the bathroom, my mouth went dry. Cronus had removed his shirt and was standing there in a pair of basketball shorts. It was so hot here that already a bead of sweat dripped down his chest and was just rolling down the v-shaped muscles on his abdomen.
#BasketballShorts #HideNothing
I was starting to wonder if he had another gold bar in there, because … damn.
When he caught sight