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Too angry to speak, he stormed from the room and headed to his "prison" Granted it was better than the hole his father had thrown him into initially, but it was still a prison

It was all he would ever know and if his father had his way, he&039;d be kept shut in here for the rest of his life

At least there were no guards outside it today Even they had been given a day of freedom A day to do as they pleased

"Why did you leave?"

He drew up short as Arte me?"

"You make hed bitterly at that Even a goddess was no better than the humans who hounded him "Do you want me naked so you can explore me?"

Her cheeks darkened, but even so he saw the heated look in her eyes

He also noticed she didn&039;t contradict him So be it

Artemis watched as her newfound human slowly released the pin for his peplos She should stop hi herself to say the words

She treht look like naked No wonder her brother spent so much time with human females If they were half this evocative

He dropped his peplos to the floor

Her thoughts scattering, she sed as she saw his nudity He was even more handso, and stretched over a body that was finely honed and well aze dropped down to the part of him that was uniquely male He was very well endowed and as she stared at hier, thicker as it slowly lifted to curve against his body His balls tightened

She&039;d never seen a man like this Rife with desire So bold and uninhibited by fear of her

He closed the distance between them "Don&039;t you want to touch me?"

Yes she did, but she couldn&039;t move Couldn&039;t breathe She felt the heat froainst her face

His nearness was intoxicating

He took her hand into his and led it toward his erection His grip was tight as he brushed her palainst the tip of his cock He was so soft, and yet hard

She sed as he slowly slid her fingers down the length of hiainst the soft sac She bit her lip while he rubbed hiainst her paluiling

He released her hand

Her first instinct was to withdraw, but she wasn&039;t one for tiers underneath his sac, letting his balls sag around thee to her

She lifted her hand up in silent exploration over his stomach to his chest

He didn&039;t move to touch her He just stared at her silently while she explored every inch of his body His eerie silver eyes were incredible She&039;d never seen anything like the better than his masculine skin beneath her hand

Oh, but he was luscious

"Do you want me to fuck you?"

She shivered at a question that should have offended her to the core of her being At the deep accent of his voice She wanted hi

If only she could

"No," she said quietly She looked up at hi "I want you to do to ain"

He took her hand and led her toward a bed where they could be alone Undisturbed

She shouldn&039;t be doing this She was a virgin goddess Untouched by od

At least until today

No one had ever kissed her before No one had ever breached her She&039;d been known to kill men just because they had seen her naked and yet for this one, she illing to let him seduce her

She didn&039;t knohy any more than she understood the compulsion inside her to be with him

He just made her feel oddly happy Warainst thehe was used to omen who lacked experience Even so, she was beautiful Her auburn hair fanned out over his pillows,he was used to feeling

The scent of roses clung to her skin He kissed her lightly on the lips while he grazed his hand up her leg, lifting the heown She stiffened a bit, but quickly relaxed She was shy

Not wanting to embarrass her, he left her lips to cran her body

Artemis was uncertain as she watched hiown Even so, she could feel hih as he trailed a hot line of kisses up the inside of her thigh until he reached the part of her that ached for hiue found that spot Biting the heel of her hand, she surrendered herself to the pleasure he gave her It was blinding and exhilarating No wonder the other gods and humans risked so much for this

And this ti to her body At least she did until he rowled at the taste of Arte his ears He loved the way she purred The sensation of her hand in his hair, stroking hiainst the mattress beside her "You have to stop Please I can&039;t take anylick before he pulled away "Are you sure?"

She nodded

Reluctantly, he did as she asked and h his own body was far fro to his ragged breathing He was still hard and stiff

"Does it hurt you to stay like this?" she asked, brushing her hand over his cock

He drew a sharp breath as if her caress pained him "Yes"

"Can you not pleasure yourself?"

"I can" He studied her face "Would you like to watch?"

Before she could answer, his hand enclosed around hers, holding her palainst hiainst his cock Sexthat was expected of him

He&039;d masturbated before crowds and with lovers more tiive other people pleasure to see him come He barely felt thepleasure, quickly gone

He&039;d long ago learned to want so more than this

But it wasn&039;t meant to be and he didn&039;t knohat it was he craved anyway Artemis was here because, like many others before her, she was curious about his body She ht not

There was a time when he would have been beaten had a lover not returned for hied on his ability to make people crave him How nity

If his lovers didn&039;t feel well sated after leaving him, he was beaten for it

Now his father would beat hi demanded celibacy fro with Arte his breath in, he iined what it would feel like to slide hiined what it would be like to have her hold hiht of so about hih to make him smile But he knew better

What he had was a stupid dream that had been fed by Ryssa and Maia at a ti shattered

Arten to be in the same room with him He would please her because that hat they&039;d trained him to do

There could never be any kind of relationship between them No doubt she&039;d vanish as soon as this was over He&039;d be alone again

Nothing in his life ever really changed

Artemis watched Acheron&039;s face while he used her hand to stroke him It was odd to touch a hts were in his head Norhts when she wanted to, but for once she couldn&039;t

How very strange

He stiffened ever so slightly before his hot seed shot through her fingers Instead of crying out as she&039;d done, he edly, then released her

She ran her hand through his warnant"

"In ed "Mine is harh"

"How so?"

"I was sterilized at puberty, Goddess My kind always are No one wants to be nant by a whore"

Artemis arched her brows at his disclosure "Hu?"

"No, but the Atlanteans can They taught the procedure to the Apollites"

She studied his fluid again " &039;Tis a shame they did that to you," Artemis said quietly "You are far too beautiful to be made sterile Shall I fix you?"

"No There&039;s no reason to I told you, no one would ever welcome a child conceived from me"

It was the pain in his silvery eyes as he spoke that brought an unfamiliar ache to her chest

Her poor huainst the white linens that only emphasized the wide expanse of tawny masculine skin Every muscle of his body was a study in perfection He was so inviting Warm And he was completely unabashed about his nude sexuality About what they&039;d done He wasn&039;t cocky or arrogant that he had touched her

He treated her like she was

Human

Most of her family couldn&039;t stand her Hu theuard up whenever she drew near

But thisor anyone Like a powerful, unta in her presence He was docile now, but the power of hi even to her

"Have you any friends?" she asked

He shook his head

"Why not?"

"I suppose I&039; "It can&039;t be that I haven&039;t any either and I am more than worthy Perhaps there is a flaw to us" She paused as she thought about that "No, that can&039;t be right either I have no flaws and yet I&039;m as alone as you are"

Never before had Artemis realized just how alone she really was Her twin brother had friends He had lovers Apollo was the closest thing to a friend she&039;d ever known, but even he was reserved around her Apollo never invited her to do things with him unless it involved destruction or punisho out carousing or ga

For the first time in her life, she realized just how lonely she was

"Will you be my friend?"

Acheron was utterly stunned by her unexpected question "You would befriend me?"

She cocked her head as she watched hi of her divine brow She was shi like him "Well, yes I mean, we can&039;t let others know it, but I like what you have shown me I wish to learn more about this world and about you" She smiled warmly at him as if she were truly sincere with her offer It re as sincerity was And friendship

It was an elusive dream he dare not allow himself People like him didn&039;t have friendship Any n part of hi for want of her

"So, are we friends? I proret it"

This had to be the strangest iven the oddity of his existence, that said a lot How could a whore be the friend of a goddess?

Acheron pulled the blanket froret being ed "I doubt that You&039;re human You&039;ll only be alivewhat? Another twenty or so years? That is so little time that it hardly row old and unattractive Besides regret isn&039;t so an Olympian feels"

She smiled as she traced his lips "Kiss me Kiss me and let ht and yet he found hi just as she asked

Friends

The two of theht Instead, he closed his eyes and breathed her in Her hands were sublime in his hair And as they kissed, he wanted her friendship with a desperation that made him ache His only hope was that he&039;d be worthy of it

Dece?"

Acheron opened his eyes to find Arte on his balcony a few feet away fro on the railing, leaning back against a coluetting so?"

She pushed her lower lip out into a becood be bored?"

She shrugged "There&039;s not that much for me to do really My brother is off with your sister Zeus is holding council and I&039;m never invited to those Hades is with Persephone My koris are bathing and cavorting with each other and ignoring ht have soether"

Acheron let out a long, tired breath He knehere this was headed and yet he was still coo inside where it&039;s warm before I remove my clothes?"