Page 17 of Zeus: Love of a god

Arms wrapped around me from behind. The feeling of Zeus’s kiss caused me to turn around to offer my lips. When I was in the studio, I was in lip reading mode unless I was listening to the final cut of a song. When Melody sang, I also listened because her voice was angelic. I would never miss a chance to hear her sing.

“I’m about to go handle something. I’ll meet you at home, okay?” After I nodded, he smacked my ass. “Jin, don’t knock on the fucking door when you get there. Use the damn code we programmed for you.”

His house had somehow become home a couple of weeks ago. I slept at my townhouse a few times, but one night of hearing Melody have loud sex was enough for me. I went to the lake house on my downtime with Melody and sometimes the Basil clan. He kissed me one more time, then left.

Melody came into my sight. “You know that boy loves you?” She had this giddy smile.

I used my hands to tell her that I didn’t think that was the case. In my mind it was too soon for all of that love talk.

I wanted to tell her something. I knew that she would be pissed off, so I signed it quickly before I turned back to the soundboard. A few seconds later, I felt her hand behind my ear, then I heard her voice. Her rude ass was known to turn my cochlear on when she was mad.

“You did the fuck what, Dindi? I know you didn’t just tell me what I think you did.” She was seething.

I huffed before I turned around. “Yes, I sent an email to my father and invited him to my grand opening. I found the email to his business, so I kinda been emailing him. He hasn’t responded to any of them though.”

Her eyes enlarged. “Did you think that his bitch ass would? He abandoned your ass. Why the fuck would he all of a sudden care about you? Make it make sense.”

“Melody, he didn’t abandon me. My mother wanted Auntie to raise me, so that is what happened. You act like he didn’t technically support me. He sent me three thousand dollars a month from when I was three years old until I was eighteen. A man that didn’t care wouldn’t do that. Melody, he contributed over five hundred thousand dollars into the trust that I got access to.”

The trust had much more in it then that when I gained access because it was a money market type of account. It was my auntie who chose not to use the money. That was not his fault.

Melody just stood there. When a tear fell from one of her eyes, I felt horrible. “Guilt, Dindi, guilt. He did the shit out of guilt. What the fuck? Was my mother’s love not enough for you? This man’s wife almost killed you for Christ’s sake.” She threw her hands up. “I don’t want to deal with this.

“I have a lot more to finalize before the event. If you choose to put yourself out there to be hurt like I know he’s going to do, then that’s on your stupid ass. It’s above me now.”

She turned her back on me, grabbed her things from the couch, then stormed out of the studio. Her words hurt like hell. I sat down in the seat that was closest to me. The tears fell from my eyes freely. It wasn’t that my auntie’s love wasn’t enough. There was a difference between maternal love and paternal love. I never went to father-daughter dances or those stupid pancake breakfasts, because I didn’t have a father. When I had recitals, there was no father sitting in the audience to watch me with admiration.

As much as I hated it, Melody was more than likely right. If he hadn’t answered me by now, what made me think that he would come to my damn grand opening. The first time that I emailed him was two weeks after I was injured. I’d sent an email a week since then. I knew that they were being read because I put a read receipt on them. I was setting myself up for hurt, and I knew that. I couldn’t just not try though.

LOUD SILENCE MUSIC STUDIO GRAND OPENING…

The day had finally come, and I wished that I could say that I was excited. I was anxious with a side of stress. My and Melody’s relationship was strained, and I hated that. Now when we talked, it was all business, and that hurt my feelings. Zeus walked in on me crying about it, which forced me to tell him what I did. He was not happy at all about it either because of what Jennifer had done. He also didn’t understand why I invited him.

“Baby, you are beautiful.”

Zeus stood behind me where I stood looking in the mirror. I wore a very cute body-con dress with my lower back out. Theshowstopper was my heels though. My Kate Strass heels were the choice for the night. I had to practice walking in these again because of my broken ankle. Every day, I wore them for hours to get used to them again.

“When I make love to you tonight, make sure you keep those on,” he said after he pointed down at my heels.

My man in his designer five-piece suit was the sexiest sight that I’d ever seen. I was so turned on that I found myself on my knees earlier to show my appreciation. My gaze went up to him. “I’ll be sure to do that.”

He wrapped his arms around me. “Are you ready for this?”

Was I?The amount of press that RSVP’d alone was intimidating. They were chomping at the bit to see who the infamous Harmony Kadence was. In all the years that I’d been in the industry, I had managed to keep my true identity shielded. Clients would be there as well as the entire full force of the Mount Olympus Riders. Members from the New York chapter, including Zeus’s grandfather, Uranus, made the trip down to support me. Hades’s company was our security for the night.

“Yeah, let’s get this over with so that I can get home and go to bed.”

I pivoted on my heels to walk past him, but his arm stopped me from moving forward. My eyes went down to his arm before it went to his face. “That’s what I won’t allow you to do, Jin.” He turned toward me, then pulled me into his arms. “I don’t care what you got going on in that pretty, big head of yours. This is your night, and you are going to walk in that awesomeness that is you. Remember, you are representing your mother and auntie with this shit.

“That mural drawing of them that you have on the entry wall says as much. Please don’t make me take you into your studio during this event to fuck the sense back into you because you’retripping right now. Talking about let’s get this over with.” He smacked my ass harder than normal. “Let’s fucking go.”

I rubbed my ass with my hands. He reached his hand out for mine. Once my hand was in his, he guided me outside of his house. When we crossed the threshold of the front door, I gasped. There were so many reasons to gasp. The suicide door luxury vehicle was to die for. I didn’t expect it at all.

What took the cake was the Mount O Riders in front of the car as well as behind. There were so many of them. Poseidon led the riders as their vice president. From what I could see, they all wore dark denim jeans and polo shirts with their club vest. “All of this for me?”

“The fuck you thought. It’s the universe for Madam Prez. Don’t forget that shit.” He walked past the car out to the center of his driveway. In a loud voice, he chanted, “O Ólympos psilá (Olympus high)!”

In unison, everyone responded. “Ópou katoikoún oi theoí (Where the gods reside)!”

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