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eBook Category: Erotica/Erotic Romance/Romance
eBook Description: Goddess of Light. Aega Helios has been cast out of Olympus and banished to Earth. Forced to live a human lifespan on the mortal plane, she is about to receive a very strange request from a very beguiling Goddess. Night Stalker. Ditheous, Pack Master of Triex, is having a very bad death. His rule is being questioned, his Lieutenant has gone missing--and now he has to deal with one very beautiful, very mysterious woman. What happens when the Goddess of Light meets one who has been cursed to walk eternally in darkness?

eBook Publisher: Atlantic Bridge/Liquid Silver Books, Published: 2005
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2005

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Words: 47029
Reading time: 134-188 min.
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ISBN: ISBN 1595781226

One hundred stories off the ground and still she felt grounded--imprisoned. She was caged in this monstrosity of metal and glass where one could neither hear the wind nor feel the sun. It mattered little that humans considered such atrocities of steel to be fashionable and impressive. The office held no joy for her. Nothing did. It was torturous. It was life--mortal life.

She had been abused before--cast into a cave and deserted. Her presence, it was said, was distracting ... disturbing and such disturbances were not tolerated--not by those used to complete attention.

Life, be it eternal or not, seemed to follow the rules of fate. And fate was known to be quite fickle.

Aega Helios smoothed one slim hand down her hair and watched the setting of the sun from her office window. It could have been beautiful. It would have been beautiful if not for the fact that she was contemplating her imprisonment and not relishing the glory of Gaea.

"You mustnt frown so ... it diminishes your brightness, lady."

Aega sighed. She knew that voice--the voice of beauty ... the voice that would lead you astray--oh yes, she knew that voice. "Hermes ... what brings you to my suffering today?"

Hermes smiled a practiced smile. "You grow lovelier by the day, lady."

She waved the trite compliment away. "Did you come to compliment, or tell me something of worth?"

Hermes pouted and sighed. "You are quick to take away my fun."

"I see no fun. Do hurry, my patience is wearing thin." Aega sat gracefully at her large mahogany desk and waited.

"What would you say if I told you that I merely came to revel in your beauty?"

Aega narrowed her eyes and her body began to pulse with a fine, brilliant light. "I would say that you have two seconds to diminish from my office before my light blinds you ... or worse."

"Your temperament," Hermes frowned, "sadly, has not improved."

Aega scowled and began to tap her fingers on the polished surface of her desk. "I would like to see how your temperament fares after being sentenced to a life on Earth."

"A mortal lifespan, that is all." Hermes circled the desk. "You can spare a mortal lifespan."

Aega made a disgusted sound from deep within her throat and shoved away from the desk.

"I have spared a lifetime and more, Hermes. How long must I wait until I may return?"

Hermes cleared his throat. "That, lady ... is what brings me here today."

She groaned. "Hermes, please do not tell me that this sentence gets worse."

"Helios and Gaea are..." Hermes began before he was cut off.

"For the love of Zeus!" Aega spat out. "Goddess be, are my parents at it again?"

Hermes shrugged. "Something about the necessity of a second sun."

"I thought they settled that argument seven thousand years ago," Aega said bitingly.

"It would seem that they are at it again." He sighed deeply. "So, you see, until they have reconciled, they feel your time would be better spent here. They are concerned, of course, for your welfare."

She snorted and tossed her long, thick hair over her shoulder. "My father has never cared for anyone save himself. It is well known that he does not want the competition."

"Lady ... I doubt that he ... well ... Im sure that it is not..."

"Oh do be quiet, Hermes. You know as well as I that my father neither wishes to see my face, nor have my presence anywhere near the mountain. No radiance as brilliant as he is allowed to disrupt his..." Aega frowned, "ego."

"Lady!"

"It is true. Father fears me, has always feared my sun. Tis why he had mother cast me into a cave. Tis why he has banished me here, to Earth."

"Lady..." Hermes placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Aega ... your respite here will be but a fleeting moment in the long journey of time. You will once again see the hallowed halls of our glorious mountain."

Aega turned and in an uncharacteristic move, buried her head in his chest. "It is just that I miss it so, Hermes," she murmured against him.

Hermes wrapped his arms around her and brought her deeper into his embrace. It was too much for him to bear--the nearness of her. Her body was cast in a delicious glow--her hair a halo of light, her eyes twin pools of amber. She was all that was fine and brilliant, and he wished to know such glory. "I know ... I know ... but calm yourself, Aega." Her name came out on a caressing wind. "You can, you will, have it all again. Indeed ... you could have it now..." Hermes ran his hand slowly down the small of her back.

She frowned and looked up into his handsome face. "Are you trying to seduce me, Hermes?"

"I merely offer comfort, Aega."

"Comfort?" Aega pulled away from him. "Your comfort is suspiciously like seduction."

Hermes smiled and tilted his head to one side. "Call it what you will."

Her hands clenched into fists. "I call it foolish, Hermes. Do you think that I do not know about your conquests? I am not one of your foolish maids to be turned by a handsome face and a few poetic words. I am a Goddess." Aega could feel the amber fire in her eyes and let her rage pour over her. "My position is not diminished by the corporal nature of my existence here. I still remain the essence of myself. And if you do not wish to feel my fire ... I suggest you take your leave."

Hermes drew an arm to his eyes to ward off the brilliant light that was blinding him.

"Yes, yes, I shall take my leave, lady. Your light does nothing but pain me now. You may wish to reconsider my offer, though. I am your best chance to see the grandeur of what you once were." With those haughty words he vanished from her office.

Aega slumped against the window and slowly she let her light diminish. So like a God to think that he could, with one small touch ... a few sympathetic words, find himself between her thighs. Gods and men were all alike--nothing but ego and self-deceived grandeur.

"I will see myself returned," Aega whispered. "And I shall do it without your help, Hermes."