Sorry I have not updated in a while.
"Am I seeing double again?" Sage asked Lacy when they saw their dates arrived at the door of the restaurant. She believed she was not seeing double since they were wearing different outfits, but one could not be too sure. One was wearing dark jeans and a black t-shirt, the other one had leather pants on and an embellish t-shirt.
"No, they are identical quadruplets." answered Lacy.
"But I only see two." said Sage.
"The others aren't here. By the way which one is mine?"
It took her all night but she finally convinced Lacy to go on the double date with her. At first Lacy was a bit grouchy when they were preparing for their date but after a while she got into the mood and was excited.
Lacy's question made Sage realize something. "He didn't tell me his name."
"What's your date's name."
"Um..."
Lacy narrowed her eyes at Sage. "You set up a double date for us but didn't get their names?"
Sage looked down in embarrassment. "It never came up."
"Does he know your name?"
Sage lowered her head further down. "It never came up." she said in a smaller tone.
"Sage!? You can't be this naïve and they are identical too so that's even worse."
"I'm sorry." Sage had been sheltered her whole life but it was not like she lacked common sense. This incident was mortifying, especially when she thought she had everything planned. She even snuck out to see Lacy's date the day before to confirm where they were meeting. She could have asked him his name then but that honestly did not cross her mind.
"Always find out names. It's important on a date." Lacy scolded her.
"I'll remember that."
"Great they are coming over. Okay, I think the one walking toward me is my date and the one coming towards you is yours."
When their dates arrived both women stood up to greet them.
"Hello, I'm Lacy." she said with a big smile. "Wow! Twins. Who is who?"
"I'm Cherif and this is Remi."
"And I'm Sage."
Each seated themselves next to their respective dates.
"You guys work at Sanctuary? I've seen you there before." Lacy knew their family owned the business but was trying to make small talk.
"Our family owns it. What about you guys?" Cherif said.
"I'm a psychiatrist."
He moved his chair closer to Lacy. "Beautiful and intelligent."
She thanked him for the compliment.
Seeing that Lacy's date was going well Sage turned her attention to her date. She should try to start a conversation with him. She didn't have an occupation but she could tell him about her interests and hobbies.
"I like owls." she told him.
Remi responded with a grunt.
"I don't eat meat. I only eat veggies and fruits-oh!" Sage gasped when Remi kissed her. She felt someone grabbed her arm and pulled her away from him.
"Excuse us." Lacy announced.
When they were inside of the bathroom, Lacy inspected Sage's lips. Sage was lost in a dream like daze. No one had ever kissed her like that before. It felt good. She wanted more.
"Snap out of it!" Lacy lightly shook her.
Sage blinked a few times and large smile spread across her face.
"Woooow." was all she could say.
"You can't let him kiss you again."
Lacy's words pulled Sage back down to earth.
"Why not?" Sage whined. She enjoyed the kiss and would like to try it again.
"He'll be reduced to ashes that's why."
Sage was disheartened by the reminder that no man could touch her. It was a shame. She really liked his kisses.
"What do you think of Sage?" Cherif asked as soon as the women were gone.
Remi shook his head. The feel of Sage's lips still burned his skin. It disoriented him. Make him crave for her taste again.
"What?"
Although Cherif saw Remi kissed Sage he wasn't sure if his brother liked her or not. Him and Lacy had a good conversation going but he could tell she was holding back. He was going to need a few more dates with her to fully know her. That meant he had to keep Sage around and to keep her around he needed someone for her. If Remi didn't like her he had to know right now so he can find someone else.
"Do you like her?"
"I like her." Remi told him honestly.
"You don't mind seeing her again?"
"No." She talked a lot but he knew ways to keep her mouth busy. He enjoyed the kiss more than he expected and plan to do more.
"Good to hear." Cherif nodded. "So...do you think you can keep her distracted while I'm with Lacy?"
"You think you can actually hit that?"
"Are you questioning my game?" Cherif was offended.
"I'm just calling it like I see it." Remi told his brother straightforward. "She don't look like she's into you."
"That's cause she's pissed at you for tonguing her friend on the first date."
Remi snorted. He didn't usually go on dates. One night stands were enough for him. He only had to look at a girl and she'll follow him to the back room.
"At least my date wants me." He said, remembering the smile on her face and the scent of her arousal.
Cherif was about to say something when their dates returned. The two men stood up from their seats.
"Sorry guys, something came up. We have to leave." Lacy announced. Sage stood behind her with her head hanging low.
Remi sent Cherif an I-told-you-so look.
"Well, can I get your number? We should stay connected." said Cherif.
Lacy told him her digits and left, dragging Sage behind. Sage turned her head and her gaze connected with Remi's. When he saw the sad look on Sages face and felt an urge to comfort her, which was uncharacteristic of him.
"Better check if the number is real." Remi teased his brother. That got him an elbow to the gut. The pain was just what he needed to temporary forget Sage.
Two weeks had passed and Remi still couldn't forget her. Every time he closed his eyes there she was, haunting him. His lips burn from the memory of their kiss. It was driving him crazy. He had to see her again.
Remi marched to search for Cherif, determined to find out anything about Sage. He found his brother in the back carving something.
"How's it going with what's her name?" Remi crossed his arms and leaned against the wall. He remembered Lacy's name but pretended like he didn't to appear causal.
Cherif put down his tools. "What?"
"The babes we went on a double date with." he reminded his brother. "The one that was practically yawning at you."
"She wasn't yawning. I'll have you know, we've been talking non-stop for days."
That was all Remi needed to hear. He walked toward Cherif and snatch his cellphone when he wasn't looking. Remi went into the hall and quickly searched for Lacy's number and copied it into his cellphone. His hands were shaking as he pressed the bright green call button on the screen.
"Hello?"
Sage had recognized Remi's voice right away. She knew she should hang up the phone that very moment but discovered that she wasn't able to. She missed him. That one kiss was buried on her memory and filled her thoughts. She suddenly started having dreams about him, intimate ones that made her sweat and ache when she woke up. She needed to see him.
Remi was waiting for her in their meeting place. As soon as their gaze connected she felt her knees weaken. She remained where she was, afraid of fall on her butt if she attempted to walk. Luckily, Remi came to her instead.
"Hi." he said and kissed her head.
Sage blinked and when she opened her eyes he kissed her lips. Suddenly, he pulled away from her, hissing under his breath as if he was in pain. It was when she remembered her curse. She looked at him with concern.
"You are dangerous baby." he said and kissed her again. Mine! Mine! Mine! chanted the bear inside of him.
Sage felt like she was being carried by a whirlwind. Everything was a blur and all she could see was Remi. She didn't remember when she closed her eyes, but when she opened them she was no longer in the streets. She was laying on a soft bed with Remi on top of her, kissing her everywhere.
"You're so hot."
His words snapped her out of her dream like state. She sat up so fast he lost his balance and fell off her. She turned her head to him and stared at him in horror. She got off the bed and backed away from him.
"We can't do this! I'm sorry!" she exclaimed.
Remi got up, surprised of her strange behavior. "What's wrong?"
Sage unzipped her pants and showed him.
"What the fuck is that?!" He knew what it was but was struck dumb by lust to accept what he was seeing.
"It's a chastity belt." she explained.
"Why?"
"My dad is very protective of me. There was a prophesy. My son would overthrow my dad. To stop this from happening, he put this on me."
"Shit! That's extremely cruel!" was all he could say. As a werebeast, his kind thrive on sex. It was the key to discovering who their soul-mate was. They would lose their powers and become weak if they remained celibate for too long.
Remi embraced her but she pulled away from him.
"We can't touch. You'll turn to ash. It's part of the spell."
"What spell?"
"Any man who touches me will be reduced to ashes. I burn you. It's why you think I'm hot."
Remi reached for her but the look in her eyes stopped him. She was worried for him and she believed he only wanted her because of the spell. He had to correct that.
"I'm hot for you because of you. Nothing else."
His words melted her. She wanted to touch him so bad. She reached out to him but put her arms down.
"We can't see each other anymore. It'll only hurt us."
Remi shook his head. He couldn't do that. He had to hold her, touch her. It would hurt him if he didn't. "I think I know a way around this."
Remi lead Sage out of his bedroom and hid her behind him as they made their way to the large walk-in freezer. Fortunately, the coast was cleared. He pulled opened the door and gestured her in. Sage walked through the threshold and shivered. Remi closed the door and instantly wrapped his arms around her. Her head shank into his chest despite her knowing she shouldn't be doing this.
"You feel so good." he told her, holding her tighter.
"You're not in pain?" she asked him.
"No."
The heat from her spell warmed them both. Remi felt no discomfort or pain since the low temperature in the freezer neutralized it. He kissed her, continuing where they left off.
Lacy didn't have to waited for Zeus too long. As soon as he felt her presence in his temple he appeared right away to greet her. She greeted him politely in return and followed him into a private area for them to speak. They sat on the plush cushion and she told him about Pallas.
"Pallas is in love."
"I always thought you two would make a great couple." said Zeus. It would have been a wonderful if the two ended up together. They were after all the two oldest virgins in Olympus. It was certainly solve his problem with Pallas and the two of them would be happy together.
Lacy rolled her eyes at him. "With a man." she clarified.
"Oh? I admit I am a little disappointed you two couldn't work it out." As a father his first thought would be what was wrong with his daughter that his niece didn't like. He knew for a fact that Pallas adored Lacy.
"We never had that type of relationship to begin with."
"Why not? What's wrong with Pallas?" he asked.
"I love her but I don't lust for her."
Zeus accepted her reason. He was the one who had given Lacy and Pallas the speech about the difference between love and lust. The news about Pallas was not devastating to him as one would thought. The only thing stopping him from seeking Pallas and bringing her back was the knowledge that her chastity belt would prevent them from having sex. It was not that he was against her enjoying carnal pleasures. He honestly had no problem with that. He was against her birthing sons that might overthrow him one day.
"Explain the situation to me."
"She and a bear fell in love. Both of them don't realize it, yet."
"A bear? I thought she favored birds." he said thoughtfully.
"She's got over a million teddy bears in her bedroom."
Zeus sighed. It was true. Damn! He got her all of those toys to relive her of her boredom and look what happened. She fell for a bear? A werebeast. They were some of the lowest form in the planet. Shit, the other gods are going to have a field day on this one. Hera was going to taunt him about it for centuries.
"The prophecy said she would bare children more powerful than the sire. You're fortunate he's a werebeast." Lacy emphasize the word. She knew full well what type of information to give him that would make him more than willing to accept Pallas and Remi's relationship.
"Their children will be weak." he stated.
It was the exact response Lacy was leading him toward. She almost had him on her side, all she had to do was show him her final card.
"What would you say, if I told you I can guarantee Pallas only birth daughters." Even if Pallas' lover was a bear and they would produce weak her son might overthrow Zeus. But if she only has daughters it would not be a problem.
"You can do that?"
"Damn it, Remi! We serve those to the customers!"
"Go away, Amiee!" Remi shouted over his shoulder. He heard Amiee scoffed and then the door slammed shut. He turned his attention back to Sage but she was pushing against him. He pulled his hands from underneath her shirt and gave her the space she needed. "What's wrong?"
The woman's interruption had snapped Sage out of her drunken lust. They were laying on large frozen sacks, his shirt was off. What they were doing was wrong. She was doing what her father had forbid her. Her poor decisions could lead to the death of her father. She was being a horrible daughter.
"We shouldn't be doing this."
"Don't worry about Amiee - my sister. She won't tell anyone." He said quickly, believing that was the reason she was behaving this way.
Sage shook her head. "No...it's just. This isn't right."
"If you let me return to what I was doing. I can make it feel right." he suggest. He reached his hand out and caressed her bare flesh. Opposite of her words, her body reacted to his touch by moving closer to him.
Sage realized what she was doing and backed away from him. She had been warned about how tempting it was but she didn't know it was this bad. "Please, stop. We can't do this. It'll kill my papa."
"Your son will kill your father but with this thing on," he pointed at her chastity belt. "we can't make sons let alone babies." Plus he could only have children with his mate. He didn't know if it was Sage or not but they could not find that out because of the particular object cock blocking him.
"We can't?" Sage looked at him dumbfounded.
A thought suddenly occurred to Remi. He wondered if anyone ever told her how babies were made.
"There are plenty of things we can do that can't make you pregnant." he explained. "You liked it when I kissed you, don't you?"
"Yes,"
"Kissing doesn't make babies."
"I know that." she said with a smile.
"Good. So you know we can kiss for as long as we want." he pointed out.
Sage nodded and kiss him long and hard. Remi kissed her back with full force. He angled her head to get better access of her mouth. Suddenly, he felt her body went stiff and their lips disconnected. Sage had lost conscious. He pulled her close and lightly shook her.
"Sage! Sage!" exclaimed Remi.
Sage regained consciousness and took a deep breath.
"Are you okay?" asked Remi.
She nodded and turned away from him.
Remi moved back from her. "Did I hurt you? Are you okay?"
Sage shook from the cold. She involuntarily moved back to Remi to warm herself.
"I'm not hurt. Well, it hurt a little bit. I can't describe it." she admitted, burying her face into his chest.
"Then what's the matter?" Remi put his arms back around her. It was when he smelled her scent and grinned. She had temporarily passed out from experiencing her first climax. He was more skilled then he thought.
"Did you like it?" he asked her smugly.
"Yes." she said in a small voice.
"Do you want to feel that again?"
"Yes." she replied eagerly.
Remi kissed her head. He had to be patient and take it slow with her. If she came this hard from just a kiss he might put her in a coma if they had real sex.
After Lacy told Zeus about her solution he invited her meet Metis. Metis was Pallas' mother, he believed she would be pleased to know how Pallas was doing. Thousands of years ago, he had released Metis form her previous prison after she attempted to carve her way out of him.
"Melinoe, how are you darling?" Metis went to hug Lacy.
Zeus arched his brow in question at Lacy, wondering when she had befriend his ex-wife. He supposed they must have know each other long since barely anyone called Lacy by her real name nowadays.
"You look great, Metis." Lacy hugged her in return. "Love what you did to your hair."
Zeus cleared his throat to get the women's attention. The two turned to him. Metis responded to him as a jaded ex-wife would, with little to zero interest.
"I'm here to talk about Pallas." Zeus explained, "She's found herself a lover."
"Good for her!" Metis turned to address Lacy, "Zeus has been so overprotective of that poor girl. I thought he would never allow her to do anything."
"She's a young, innocent, virgin. Easy pray for selfish men."
"See that, Melinoe? His sins against womankind has made him fear for his daughters." Metis thought her words over. "Well...only his favorites. I believe it's called Karma."
"The only reason I'm against her taking lovers is because her son could kill me!" Zeus reminded her.
"Did another prophesy come out?" asked Metis.
"No." answered Lacy.
"Why would you ask that?" asked Zeus.
"Because of what you said." said Metis.
"About the prophesy concerning you, Athena, and Pallas?" asked Zeus.
"What does Pallas have to do with mine and Athena's prophesy?" asked Metis.
"Because Pallas is your daughter." Zeus stated as a matter-of-fact.
"Pallas is not my daughter." Metis revealed.
"Pallas isn't yours?" asked Zeus.
"No. I thought it was obvious. She looks nothing like me or Athena."
"Lacy, come here." Zeus grabbed Lacy's arm and returned them back to his temple.
This was a shock to both Zeus and Lacy. All this time they thought Pallas was Athena's fraternal twin but Metis had confirmed that she was not. Lacy observed Zeus' behavior closely. His hands were shaking. He was trembling from head to toe, mumbling something under his breath.
"You suspected it all along haven't you?" Lacy asked him, after making out what he was mumbling.
"She looks like her." Zeus confessed.
"Who? Who looks like who?"
"Pallas. She looks like my...first wife."
"You have another wife?" Lacy was not surprised by this.
"Her name was Cynosura. She raised me as a child. I loved her. When I became an adult we married."
"I can imagine." Lacy admitted. She had heard enough stories about her uncle, who was also grandfather, and his list of lovers. Having a number of secret wives was nothing.
"Cronus murdered her to hurt me." Zeus ran his hand over his hair. "Pallas resembles her but I never thought..."
"Was Cynosura pregnant when she died?" Lacy asked him.
"Yes, Cronus...he removed the unborn from her womb and..." Zeus went silent. He could not bring himself to finish that sentence.
"Pallas is Cynosura and yours. She survived." Lacy told him.
"What? How can that be? I saw her...I saw Cynosura's and our child's corpse."
"Have you forgotten I'm a Goddess of Death? I have seen this happen before. Children's souls - especially unborn children - when they die they don't know where to go. They would often cling on to their mothers body. Were you in close contact to Cynosura right after her death?"
"Cronus left her alive long enough for me to find her but she died within seconds."
"You're Pallas' father, her soul is connected to you. She went into you. Your body."
"Cynosura was my first love. Pallas was my first child. I had swore I would forever hold her in my heart. Maybe that's why Pallas was inside of my heart because of my oath?" Zeus said as he thought Lacy's words over.
Lacy's thoughts were running a mile. Since Pallas was Cynosura's daughter and not Metis. It meant she was not connected to the prophesy. She can be with Remi with out a problem, unless Zeus objected. She had to make sure he didn't.
"How do you feel about Pallas and Remi? Now that you know the truth?"
"Pallas and her bear? How do I feel about them?" Zeus laughed and shook his head.
Sage stirred from underneath the sheets as she felt for Remi. They had moved from the freezer and back to his bedroom. He had lower the temperature to match the freezer and they continued her sexual education.
"He went to get you some food."
Sage gasped from hearing Lacy's voice. She pulled the sheets off and was surprised to see Lacy and her father standing in Remi's bedroom.
"Papa? What are you doing here?" Sage pulled the sheets to cover her naked breast.
"To give you my blessing and to remove this." said Zeus.
Sage felt her chastity belt vanished. "Why?"
"I recently found out you are not Metis' daughter. The prophesy doesn't apply to you."
"Is this true?"
"Yes," replied Lacy.
"If Metis isn't my mother than who is?" asked Sage.
"Cynosura, a nymph, my first wife. She is gone from this world. You are my daughter with her."
Tears rolled down Sage's face. Although she didn't know her biological mother, it caused her great pain to know that she never would know her.
Zeus hugged Sage. "Don't be sad my little owl. You mother maybe come but that doesn't mean she isn't watching over you."
"What do you mean?"
"'My little bear' was what Cynosura used to call me. After her death I placed her with the stars as Ursa Miner, meaning little bear."
"Little bear?" repeated Sage.
"Remi, he's a bear. She - your mother - chose him for you and I support her. You can be with Remi as long as you wish." said Zeus. He kissed her head and released her.
"Thank you, Papa."
"If you need anything call for me. I am always there for you." said Lacy and hugged her.
Lacy and Zeus wished Sage the best before they vanished. When Remi returned to the bedroom with a tray of food, he found Sage crying on the bed. He put the try on the nightstand and asked her what was wrong.
"Nothing," she said. She pushed the sheets off her and stood before him completely bare. "Make love to me."
Remi was not about to be told twice. He tore his clothes off and carried her back to the bed. When he saw the chastity belt gone he gave into the animal inside. With nothing between them, he was free to explore her body with this hands, with his mouth...
Just as Remi had thought earlier she passed out again. It was his fault. He knew she could handle not too much at once but he tasted her anyways. The scent of her arousal drove him mad. He was harder than he had ever been in his life but he did nothing about it. He went on the bed and pulled Sage's body to his. If possible, he grew harder by the feel of her bare back to his chest. He threw the sheets over them and buried his nose in her hair. It was then and there he knew that she was his mate. Even if they had not had sex he knew that she was his.
Mine. was what his bear said before he fell asleep.
