A Taste of Greek (Out of Olympus #3) (28 page)

When a tear rolled down her cheek, he wiped it away with his thumb. “So, what do you say? Do you think we can do that? Have a real marriage?”

She sniffed. “But I thought you didn’t love me.”

He chuckled. “Oh Penny, why would you think that?”

“Well, you were forced to marry me. And you said we’d return to our lives after Zeus was satisfied.”

“That’s true, but I didn’t say it meant that I would leave you.” He tipped her chin up. “I love you. I would have asked you to marry me even if you hadn’t needed protection from Zeus.”

“Are you sure?”

Hermes leaned closer, his lips hovering over hers. “Absolutely sure, baby. I think I finally know the exact moment I fell in love with you. I saw you in the soup kitchen at the church on Sunday night.”

She gasped. “You were there?”

“Yes, I watched you. And you know what I saw? I saw a woman who cared about others, who, despite her own problems, despite the fact that she was going to lose her job, still gave back to others.” He stroked his knuckles over her cheek. “You have such a soft heart. At that moment I realized that I had to protect this heart. I wish I’d known from the beginning why you needed tenure so badly, that it wasn’t because you were ambitious, but because you didn’t want to uproot your grandmother when you had to find another job somewhere else in the country. I understand that now.”

“I didn’t want to burden anybody with it.”

“Because that’s you, Penny. Always taking the burden on yourself. You won’t have to carry it alone anymore. I’m here now. I’m here for you.” He paused for a moment, watching how tears shot to her eyes. “There’s just one thing.”

Her eyes opened wide, curiosity sparking in them. “What?”

“I would like my wife to love me too.”

Penny threw her arms around his neck and pressed her body against his. “Oh God, I love you, Hermes, I love you.”

His heart jumped from joy, and his lips split into a wide grin. “In that case, I think I should take you on a honeymoon.”

“A honeymoon? When?”

“Now,” he whispered into her ear and teleported them away.

Moments later, they arrived on the terrace of his home. He released her from his arms, giving her an opportunity to take in her surroundings.

His villa stood on a gentle hill overlooking a white sand beach, a crystal blue ocean stretching before it as far as the eye could see. A garden of vivid flowers and stunning fountains surrounded the house, and a footpath led to the beach below.

“Welcome to my home,” he said.

With wide eyes and an open mouth, she turned three-hundred-sixty degrees and took it all in. “It’s beautiful. Where are we?”

“On Olympus.”

“Where is everyone?”

He smiled. “This beach is private.”

Penny turned to him. “It’s yours? All of it?”

“Yes. And I can do here whatever I please. Nobody will see us.”

“Nobody?” she asked, a strange glint suddenly appearing in her eyes.

His throat went dry and blood shot into his cock, making him harder than the granite his terrace was made of. “I guarantee it.”

Her gaze dropped to the bulge in his pants “Well, in that case . . . ” She gave him a little shove so he landed on one of the lounges. “Why don’t you lie back and relax, while I take care of my wifely duties.”

“Wifely duties?” he choked out as her hands went to the button of his white linen pants, popping it open.

He rested his head against the cushion and watched her as she unzipped him and freed his cock from its confines. Her palm wrapped around him, gripping him tightly. He groaned. Then she bent over him, bringing her lips to the tip of his cock. When she licked over the mushroomed head, he had to grip the sides of the lounge chair to stop himself from jolting upwards, so intense was the sensation.

He needed her to slow down, or he would spill in an instant. “Gods, baby!” But before he could say anything else, she wrapped her lips around him and slid down his length, taking him into her mouth.

“Fuck!” He breathed hard, trying to steady himself. “I should have gotten married earlier.”

Her chuckle bounced against his tender flesh, nearly robbing him of his control. Then her warm tongue slid up and down his erection, her cheeks hollowing as she sucked him as if she wanted to suck the life out of him. If she continued like this for much longer, she would kill him.

Of their own volition, his hips jerked upwards, thrusting his cock deeper into her delicious mouth.

“You gotta stop, baby!”

But she continued pleasuring him with her mouth and her tongue, sucking him so lovingly and with so much passion that he felt indeed as if he were in paradise. Nobody had ever shown him such tenderness and passion. Nobody had ever loved him the way Penny showed her love.

Knowing he couldn’t last much longer, he put his hands on her cheeks and lifted her head up. Their gazes collided.

“Ride me!”

“Is that one of my wifely duties?” she asked coquettishly.

“Yes! In fact, it’s one of your daily duties.”

“And as a husband, do you have duties too?”

He grinned. “Yes.”

He snapped his fingers, ridding himself and her of their clothes. Naked now, he pulled her over him, so she straddled his hips.

“One of my duties as a husband is to satisfy my wife at all times.”

“I like that.” She lowered herself, aligning her sex with his cock.

“My goddess!” he whispered and pulled her down onto his hard-on, submerging himself deep inside her.

When she started to move up and down on him, her beautiful breasts bouncing with every movement, he lost his ability to speak and could only moan and issue sounds of pleasure to let her know how much he loved her.

Epilogue

Four months later

Penny hit
print
and snatched the piece of paper from the printer, before excitedly running down the stairs of her brand new home. No, she corrected herself, her and Hermes’ home. He’d purchased a house not far from her grandmother’s in Charleston so that they could remain close to her. Only rarely did they teleport to Hermes’ palace on Olympus to spend some quiet time there, away from everybody.

She found Hermes in the kitchen where he was busy directing the servants of the gods—three pint-sized fairies—to prepare a sumptuous feast for the guests they were expecting for lunch: Triton and Sophia, Dionysus and Ariadne, and Eros.

Penny smiled at him when he turned to her. “Hey baby, everything ready?”

He nodded and pulled her into his arms. “Everything’s ready for the big announcement.” Then he dropped his head and slid his hand over her belly, stroking it gently. “How’s my other favorite person in the world doing?” he asked, motioning to her bump. “Are you feeling okay? Not nauseous anymore?”

She shook her head. “I think that phase is over.”

“I can’t wait to tell everybody today.”

“And Zeus?”

Hermes grinned. “Don’t worry, my love, Zeus already knows.”

“What? I thought this was going to be a surprise!”

He brushed a strand of hair behind her ear. “You can’t hide anything like that from him. And may I just say, he’s very pleased.” Hermes pressed a gentle kiss onto her lips.

“Oh, I almost forgot.” She pulled herself from his embrace and handed him the sheet of paper she’d printed. “Look! It got published. This will get me tenure!”

Hermes’ eyes flew over the printed words, then he looked up at her. “I’m so proud of you, baby. And Hades is going to love it.” He chuckled. “But did you really have to lay it on that thick?
Hades, the misunderstood god—Persephone not a victim, but the perpetrator
.”

Penny chuckled. “I owed him. Or would you rather have had me thank him in another way for escorting me out of the underworld when I needed to leave?”

Hermes growled low and dark. “You mean he was trying to blackmail you into his bed? That conniving—”

“Shhhh.” She put her finger over his lips. “Nobody could ever blackmail me into bed—nobody but you.”

“So you think I blackmailed you into my bed?”

“Didn’t you?”

He pulled her back against his body, and she could clearly feel the hard ridge of his cock press against her center.

“I’ll have to punish you for that remark.”

Her breath hitched, excitement coursing through her. He could still do this even after several months of marriage. “How?”

“Oh, I think you know how.”

Then he palmed her backside, and a moment later she found herself in their bedroom. “Hermes, what will the servants say?”

“I’m not concerned about the servants right now. I’ve got better things to do. Much better things.” Then he captured her mouth with his lips and lowered her onto the bed. “I have to perform my husbandly duties.”

“I love you,” she murmured before his lips were back on her, and his hands relieved her of her clothes.

THE END

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