Page 15 of Zeus: Love of a god

I was sure that my brother put in most of the work before we got here. His ass didn’t need to be here until the end. “Yeah, we got this shit. Make sure Mama saves us a plate, man.”

Hades patted Arke on the shoulder. “Man, come through after y’all are done here and cleaned up.” He looked back at the two men hanging from the ceiling. “Good journey to hell, bitches.”

Just like that, Hades, Poseidon, and I were out of The Wheat House, on our bikes, and back on the road to our family’s compound. There was nothing like riding with my brothers when it was just us. It was cool to ride with the club, but it was a different bonding experience when it was just the Basil brothers. We slipped seamlessly in and out of the lanes. North Carolina had a helmet law, but that was fine since we had Bluetooth communicators in our helmets.

It felt like it took no time to get back to the compound. Hestia’s and Hera’s cars were in the roundabout driveway. My brothers and I approached the front door together. We all stopped short at the sound of a piano. “What the fuck is that?” Poseidon asked.

As soon as Hades opened the front door, Hestia popped her ass from around a pillar in the foyer. “Zeus, did you know she could play like that? She’s playing that shit with her implant off, Bro! I yelled her name a few minutes ago, and she didn’t hear me.”

I stood there stuck as I watched my baby play the grand piano that sat at the back end of the foyer. She wasn’t just playing though. It was on some professional type of shit. It was so fucking beautiful. Dindi was such a complex person with so many walls to knock down. I planned to knock down every one of them too.

“No, I had no idea that she played. Fuck, Madam Prez is beautiful.”

My brothers’ and sisters’ heads snapped in my direction. Like they were a damn choir or Soulja Boy, they said in unison, “Madam Prez!”

A VERY SHORT TIME EARLIER…

“Bitch,so you out there getting Greek dick now!”

Melody was so dramatic! I called her as soon as I got into my room. This was not something that I could hold.

I laughed. “Shut up. Let’s not talk about Greek dick.” I gave her a side-eye for knowing.

When she came to visit after I gave her an abridged version of what happened to me, I noticed the little show of flirtation between her and Poseidon. One thing that my auntie, Melody’s mother, taught both of us was to be comfortable in our sexuality. I knew that I wanted to fuck Zeus the first day that he stepped foot into my hospital room. I knew that I would fuck him theday that we sat in my room for three hours talking and I didn’t want him to leave. He was such a caring and funny person. At the same time, I could tell that if he needed to, he would nut the hell up.

“I’m talking about your Greek dick, not mine. From what you just told me, you own yours. I’m just on a borrowing program right now. Dindi, you’re in a relationship!”

When she pointed that out, it was like the first time that it really sunk in. Today wasn’t the first time that Zeus said something about me and him being together. I just took it with a grain of salt. I knew it was real during that second session in the shower. Being the girlfriend of Zeus Basil was not such a bad thing to be.

“Yeah, I guess I am. Do you think his family will, like, not agree with us being together?” I wasn’t sure why I was so worried about that. Yeah, they were all cool, sweet, caring, and nice. It was one thing to be all of that to the disabled girl who you were assisting. It was another to be all of that to your son or brother’s disabled girlfriend.

All of Melody’s cheerfulness left her facial expression. “Bitch, don’t make me curse your ass out. That man’s people loved you before there was a you and him. Stop playing with me and yourself.”

“Yeah, you’re right.” I didn’t want to discuss that anymore. “So, I composed a new piece. Wanna hear it?”

Her cheerfulness was back. “Oh, that means you must be home alone. Fuck yeah, I want to hear it.”

I picked up the tripod that held my phone and my musical composition book to take with me out to the grand piano. The first time I played it was when Melody was here. Mr. and Mrs. Basil were out at dinner. She wanted to play it, too, so we did. It was then that we found not only did it sound astonishing, but it also had light effects when played.

I set up the camera so she could see both me playing as well as my sheet music, then took my boot off. When I played instruments, I either sat on the floor or didn’t wear shoes. It allowed me to feel the beats. When I composed beats and songs, I did them with my cochlear off. I didn’t listen to it until I did what I considered the final cut. By that time, Melody had already heard it and given her feedback.

Once I had everything set up, I took a final look at my phone screen. “Are you ready?” After she nodded her conformation, I took a deep breath. “Alright, I’m going off now.”

I turned off my implant, put my finger on the key, feet on the pedals, and closed my eyes. From the first note played, I felt it in my soul. This was where my heart lived. This was the loud silence that God gave me to relish in. The feeling of the notes flowing through my body was orgasmic.

I didn’t remember much about my mother, but I was told that she was the reason for my initial love of music. Auntie Kadence told me that she had music surrounding me since I was born. She would put a speaker under the mattress of my crib so that I could feel the beat of whatever song played. I had seen pictures of the music room that was in the house that my parents had. I loved that my auntie picked up right where my mother left off. I would always owe my success to God, my mom, and auntie. Harmony Kadence was my life.

When I hit the last note, I felt like it was my first time that I took a breath. I turned my body toward my phone. Melody wore this funny expression that made me tilt my head. I asked her if she liked it with my hands. She smiled, nodded, then told me to turn around with her hands.

The hair on the back of my neck stood up. I slowly turned my body around with my eyes closed. Once my body faced the door, I kept my eyes closed. Before I could open them, I felt lips press against mine. My eyes slowly opened to my beautiful man, Zeus.My man.When I pulled back from the kiss, his hand cuffed the back of my neck to pull me in deeper.

There was a tap on my shoulder. I pulled back to see Hestia standing there with a hand on her hip. When she signed for us to be nasty somewhere else and to turn my cochlear on because she wanted me to hear her curse me out, I giggled. I took the time to turn it on.

“Oh, so you got tons of secrets. You’re out here playing like a prodigy, and we’ve just been informed that you’re Madam Prez. You better start talking, ma’am.” Hestia’s hand returned back to her hip.

“Dindi, call me back when you can, cuz. Love you,” Melody said through my phone before I heard the disconnect sound. Leave it to her to leave me to the wolves.

Zeus fussed at me about my boot for a second. It wasn’t until he helped me up that I saw the rest of his siblings gawking at me like I had two heads.Great!This wasn’t what I thought would happen today.

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