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“Apollo too?” I ask, and he shrugs.
“It’s not–”
“For you to say. I understand.”
I smile gratefully. “Thanks for the information. It makes things a lot clearer.”
I head back to my seat with the water and remember Apollo disappearing off with Chloe on the flight over here. All the time I was preparing myself for a few days of passion, he was indulging in the hired help. It certainly explains a lot and if anything, I should thank him. He has shown me the utmost respect because if I had sex with him, I would feel a lot worse than I do now.
I drop down into my seat and stare out of the window. Adonis is also quiet, and I’m grateful for that. I must get my head and emotions together because it appears that I am playing a game that everybody but me knows the rules of, which means I am almost certain to lose.
CHAPTER 32
ADONIS
This is the weirdest flight of my life. Ordinarily, I would be fucking Chloe in the bedroom to pass the time as I scratch a constant itch that she has the remedy for. She knows the score. It’s a mutually beneficial arrangement that she also extends to my brother and father.
The Constantine whore.
Some may be disgusted by it, but we consider it normal. Apollo uses her to purge his mind of another, and I use her to stop anyone getting in.
Until today. Until I saw Melissa Remington walk toward the boat and something shifted inside me. My reaction has stunned me. I am not unfamiliar with beautiful women. I’ve fucked many in the past. However, it’s as if Aphrodite herself walked onto the jetty and bewitched me with Eros’s arrow. I am struggling to deal with it and have no words because how can I say what is in my heart when I don’t even know the meaning?
Apollo said he loved her. He never says it to anyone. Only Phoebe and look where that got him. For all we know, she ran away. From this life—from him. He doesn’t even consider it a possibility, and I asked him about it once and I still remember the pain of the thrashing he gave me just for doubting her. I didn’t fight back, not that time, because Apollo needed to deal with his aggression, and he may as well take it out on me.
Love. That is love for a brother but love for a woman? I will never understand that.
I peer through my eyes at the woman who is occupying more than just the seat in front of me. She has crawled inside my head, and I am having extremely X-rated thoughts right now as I imagine what it would be like to be inside a woman like her.
I should scratch this itch and fuck Chloe senseless, but I can’t. I’m disgusted at the thought of it, which makes me angry.
Melissa sighs and whispers, “You are very lucky.”
“Am I?” I shrug, not daring to breathe in case she falls silent, and I don’t get to hear her soft voice.
“You are free.”
“Am I?” I shrug. “You don’t know me at all.”
She peers at me through those insane lashes and smiles, and I swear I almost groan out loud.
“You can do what you like up to a point.”
“So can you.” I state the obvious, and she nods, a wistful expression in her eye.
“I wish it was the case.”
“Then tell me what you wish for. Maybe I can help.”
I sound like a fucking genie, but she smiles, catching a jagged piece of my heart on the edge of it.
“It’s fine. I’m just being silly, I guess, but when Apollo suggested going away for a few days, I kind of thought?—”
She breaks off, looking a little embarrassed.
“That it would mean something. Be more intimate than it was. A love story perhaps?”
I soften my expression and whisper, “You’re not being silly, it’s called living.”
