Preface
Hera POV: (aka Esme)
"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!" a beautiful voice said. It sounded like beautiful bells and chimes, and as delicate as a white lilly.
" Ari! I'm coming!" I said, I hoped she didn't notice the tension in my voice. Oh Gosh, I'm so afraid for her… what I'll do to her... what I'll be the cause of in her life…
I walked past the beautiful white marble pillars. I glided past my beautiful garden filled with white lilies and roses, and idea from my child… well my youngest. All I heard was the tapping of my sandals and the swoosh of my dress. I got closer to the fountain with the cherubs sprouting water.
The closer I got the louder the giggle was. The most beautiful giggle in the universe. Well… nobody expects less from the goddess of beauty, love, and kindness. She was my youngest, my Ari, my Aphrodite.
Then I saw my beautiful baby, my 3 year old child. She was beautiful, beyond beautiful, she was perfect and godly. The first thing I saw were those platinum, striking blond tresses that cascaded beautifully down her waist, just like her father's hair color… Her side bangs were straight but curled at the end her hair was in the most beautiful curly ringlets. That beautiful angelic face was next, she was pale but it made her look even more perfect, if that was even possible, and heavenly. Her eyes those hypnotizing eyes, they had you wrapped around her little finger. Tose beautiful green, blue, and gold eyes swirling together, the eyes of an angel. Captivating, yet gentle and welcoming. Her red full lips small nose, and her little curved body. She would be a heartbreaker when she grew up. Yet she has powers that we do not know, ones that will only appear when she becomes 14… an age that I will never get to see.
Oh! What can I do! I don't want to leave her, she'll forget… Wait! There is one thing Zeus told me, becoming a vampire…
Flashback
"Hera you have committed a crime that in itself is immoral and wrong!!" " We have allowed you to keep this MAN'S child, the only good he did us was give us a goddess!" " Yet how could you! How could you do that to your children… to me"
" I did no such wrong." I decided to feign ignorance maybe it will spare HIM and my child.
" You did no such!... LIES!! HERA!! You dare lie to me!! The god of gods!!" "Hermes himself, YOUR BROTHER, saw you with a –with a MORTAL!!" " YOU HAD AN AFFAIR!!" he said it so angrily and disgustedly that I was scared. "With a man who was not your husband, a man whose name is Carlisle! Can you deny this now!!" I could do no more he had found out. I could feel the tears fall, I knew what the judgment would be and... and I don't believe that I can do that, not to her… not to Aphrodite, not to the child he named… not to Isabella, not to my little angel Bella…