Grounded (7 page)

Dion stood face-to-face with the only man he truly feared. The only man he had ever tried
to emulate. The man he loved even more now, as an adult, than he had when he was a child. And a man, he knew, that love
d
him
.
Taking a seat next to his father, Dion simply said, "I’m in love with her."

"Well, then. Love’s a grand thing, son. Are you sure it’s
love with this one and not just lust?"

Dion snorted. "After all the women I’ve known, Father, I think I can tell the difference
between lust and love by now."

"Well, you’ve got me there." Zeus smiled mischievously. "I, on the other hand, have loved
every one of the women I’ve known."

"
Tha
t
would be lust, Father," Ira said, shaking his head. "It’s the reason Mother is

constantly irate with you."

"Your mother just doesn’t understand men." Zeus waved his hand and lightning struck in the middle of the room, the ozone hanging heavily in the air.

Both of his sons looked at the black spot on the floor then turned amused looks on their
father. Zeus laughed out loud.

~ * ~

Aurora and Patty walked side-by-side through gardens that perpetually bloomed with roses, tulips, daffodils, and a broad range of other flowers, shrubs and trees that Patty couldn’t name. Thunder rolled somewhere in the distance and Patty looked up, expecting to see rain clouds, but there were none.

"It’s beautiful here," Patty commented.

"It’s one of my favorite places," Aurora told her. "I spend a lot of time out here."

"I can’t imagine you digging in the dirt."

Aurora’s lilting laughter rang out across the vast gardens. "I don’t dig in the dirt, my dear. This just sort of happens," she said and waved her hand. An area that was green with grass suddenly sprouted a bed of flowers.

Patty gasped. "I wish I could do that!"

Aurora linked her arm through Patty’s. "Tell me about my son. What do you think of him?"

"I think he’s gorgeous and brilliant and wonderful and I can’t get enough of him," she
said dreamily. "He’s a god!"

"Yes, he’s a god. A quite powerful one, at that. He simply refuses to be godlike, except
when it suits him."

"I don’t believe any of this," Patty declared. "How can any of this be real? Yet, here I am
and I don’t understand it."

"Yet, you do accept it, don’t you?"

"Yes, I guess I do."

"That’s good. I’m glad to hear it. Zeus keeps going after human females and never seems
to find one who can accept him for what he is. He keeps them a few days then they tend to go quite mad." Aurora smiled smugly. "Perhaps one day he’ll realize all he needs has been right in front of his nose the whole time."

"Z
eus? He exists too. Oh my goodness!"

"Yes, he exists, too. Sometimes I wish he—"

"
Woman
!
" a disembodied voice thundered.

"Speak of the devil," Aurora whispered. "Yes, Highness, how may I serve you?"

Zeus appeared, riding a lightning bolt, and Patty shrieked and tried to hide behind Aurora.

"You don’t have to be so dramatic. You scared the girl," Aurora chided.

Zeus eyed Patty with what she imagined was supposed to be a hard, frightening look but for some reason, that’s not what Patty saw. She smiled at him, somehow knowing he was mostly bluster and show.

"Your Highness," Patty said and bowed.

"You may rise," he said loudly.

Aurora rolled her eyes; the man did love his theatrics. Zeus released the lightning bolt,
which disappeared into thin air, and fell in stride beside the two women. He took Patty’s arm in a gentlemanly gesture and offered her a warm smile before addressing Aurora.

"I’ve been speaking with my sons. It seems they are upset with you, woman."

"Hmmm," Aurora said. "That makes this day different from all others in what way?"

Zeus laughed and thunder boomed in the distance. "Woman, you will never learn to
control that tongue with me, will you?"

Aurora looked up at him and smiled, and Patty could see the love she had for him on her
face.

"And you, my girl. What do you have to say for yourself?"

Patty swallowed hard. Was she really walking through a garden on Mount Olympus talking to the Greek God Zeus? Holy-freaking-crap! "Well… " she said.

"Don’t beat around the bush. What is going on between you and my son?"

"I don’t really know, sir. We’ve hardly had time to find out. We haven’t even had a chance to get to know one another very well yet."

"Are you in love with him?" Zeus asked bluntly.

Patty choked.

"You are," Zeus said. "What are you going to do about it? You love him and he loves you.
This isn’t rocket science."

"
He loves me
?
He loves me," she whispered.

Aurora laughed and Zeus chuckled, causing lightning to flash across the sky and
thunder to boom in the distance.

"I’m sure that’s something Dion would want to tell her himself, dear," Aurora said softly.

Zeus cleared his throat. "I’m sure he will, too, so act surprised." "I don’t think she’ll need to act." Aurora looked up at the father of her children and he winked.

"Would you like to accompany me this afternoon, Aurora?" he asked.

"Accompany you where?" she asked coyly.

Dropping Patty’s arm, Zeus quickly grabbed Aurora around the waist and pulled her to
him. His lips came down on hers and they both disappeared.

Patty stood looking around, spun in a circle and thr
ew her hands up. "What about me?"

In the next instant, she found herself on the bed in the hotel. Dion was with her. Naked.
On top of her. And grinning ear-to-ear.

"What happened?" she asked.

"What do you think of my family?"

"That…
that was real?"

"They liked you a lot, especially my father."

"That was real?"

"Ira thinks you’re beautiful. Too beautiful and good of heart for me, is how he put it."

"That was really real?"

"Why do you keep saying that?"

"I just can’t believe it. It so surreal, so un-fucking-believable!"

Dion laughed out loud; she rarely used such language. "I agree, but you’ll get used to it."

He kissed her long and hard as he moved his hands over her body. Rolling over onto his back, he pulled her on top of him and impaled her with his hard cock in one swift movement. She rocked on him, shifting back and forth with her hands braced against his chest. Dion moved his hands up and down her arms.

Sitting back, Patty laced her fingers with his, then pinned him against the bed. Her face
was mere inches above his as she continued to slide her pussy up and down his rigid cock. She could see by the expression on his face that he was close to coming and she gently bit his lip. He closed his eyes and moaned, reveling in the feel of hot, wet pussy, and warm, sweet woman assaulting his senses.

"Open your eyes," she whispered hoarsely. "I want to watch when you come in me."

Breaking the hold she had on his hands, Dion sank his fingers into the flesh of her hips and pinned her to his body. He took control of the rhythm and ground his dick deep inside her. Patty wrapped her fingers in his hair, while the hair on his chest rubbed against her nipples.

"Come in me," she panted.

"Come with me," he whispered, and then they both did.

"I love you, Patty," he whispered.

Rising up, she looked into his eyes and smiled. "I know. Your father told me." Seeing the expression on his face, she laughed. "I love you, too."

Then she pressed her mouth to his and they started all over again.

~ End ~