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T he door to the lounge closed and Vulcan began to pace back and forth across the small space Emotions he&039;d never experienced before had unexpectedly been awakened within hiean to s breaths in and outin and out It wouldn&039;t do to set the place afire But oh how he&039;d like to burn - to shoardly the wildfire that was raging inside hiht had simply been to be near her, to perhaps speak with her Never in his wildest drea had happened within hiant fool tried to force Pea to stay with him on the dance floor Suddenly all of the need and desire and passion that had been si within him for eons had bubbled over into a full heated boil He had wanted her before, but tonight he had found the will to act on his desire

And it had worked! He had actually touched her and tasted her and brought her pleasure His cock was still engorged with the et enough of her? He wantedher back with hi Show her what? Hoas shunned and outcast alory that was Olympus? Then ould she feel for him? Pity? Contempt?

No He would not take her to Olympus He would woo her here, in the modern world of mortals, as a man would Resolutely he retied his mask and walked to the door She said to meet her outside the restaurant, and she would introduce hirowled There could only be one person to whom she wanted to introduce hi entirely? He could only i Pea present hiry at his infidelity - on the contrary Fro more than respect and a rather tenuous friendship between theement, intended to be mutually beneficial They weren&039;t in love In actuality their passionless e had been the butt of many Olympian jokes If she discovered he was Pea&039;s lover, would Venus laugh at hiht made him shudder No, the Goddess of Love was not cruel She wouldn&039;t laugh, but she would be shocked There was little doubt that she would betray his true identity to Pea Then he would no longer be her passionate mortal lover He would be the pitiable God of Fire, who had been rejected by Love herself

"No!" he cried Their relationship was too new Perhaps later, after they had had time to build a foundation between the he could do was to return to Olympus and make plans to come back to her another day He would also pray that she would forgive hih of despair, the God of Fire closed his eyes and willed hi only a shi as evidence that he had ever been there

Griffin hadn&039;t returned to her

Venus couldn&039;t believe it It was ludicrous, really Who stood up Love? Again she considered following hioddess-be-daness

But she couldn&039;t It was hu alone (and eating both orders of chocolate dessert) If she went into the restaurant after hih When the bright red trucks pulled up to the curb, Venus ignored the out of the restaurant If he came up to her she would pretend not to know him Then she&039;d blast hilad I found you" Pea hurried up to Venus&039;s table

"Hello, darling" Venus shts of revenge "I hope you&039;ve been having a lovely time"

"Well"

Pea&039;s odd tone finally got the goddess&039;s full attention Venus frowned and really looked at the little ns were there: flushed face, rosy, bruised looking lips"Pea" She gasped "Have you just orgas out love stuff, aren&039;t you?" Pea flushed an even brighter pink and looked like she was on the verge of tears "Yes," she whispered, and then mouthed the words oral sex

"I&039;m such an idiot" Pea hid her an reasonably, coood news "There&039;s nothing for you to hide your face and be ashamed of - it&039;s lovely that you had a delicious sexual encounter" What in the ancient world rong with the girl? Then realization hit Venus There was nothing wrong with having a delicious sexual encounter unless the man behaved in a boorish or unsuitableentirely too much about Venus pulled Pea&039;s hands from her face and forced the mortal to meet her eyes "Pea, ho said God of Fire"

Venus felt a sickening jolt "By Cupid&039;s bright pink ass, that does it!" The curse exploded frous on you?"

"Griffin? No, I said his na said God of Fire, not Griffin I only wish it had been Griffin At least I know hi, I&039;read God of Fire, but whom you don&039;t know, not even his name, to perform oral sex upon you?"

Pea bit her lip, nodded, and started to cry, all the while throwing furtive looks over her back at the crowd still strea out of Lola&039;s With a sob, she said, "I told him to meetI i connection between the two of us"

Pea paused, pulled off her mask and wiped at her face "But I don&039;t even know his name, so how

&039;connected&039; could we have been? And he was definitely a fireer do that to me in the ladies&039; room? He&039;ll never, ever even look at me," Pea said with a wail

Venus blanched It was ain if she found out that while she&039;d been having sex with a stranger, her friend andunder a tree with the ods, how had she ht?

"Let&039;s get out of here," Venus said, grabbing Pea&039;s ar lot

Neither of them saw Griffin rush out of the restaurant and stand, hands on hips, scanning the crowd until he, too, was finally pulled reluctantly aboard one of the fire engines just , drink your hot chocolate," Venus told Pea "And wipe your face You&039;re done crying now"

"That&039;s right, sluts probably don&039;t ever cry over theirtheir" Pea struggled with the vocabulary "their numerous nasty illicit encounters"

Venus tried unsuccessfully to hide her ser does not make you promiscuous And besides that, it&039;s worse than archaic to believe that women can&039;t take their pleasure as they will It&039;s restrictive and smacks of double standards Doesn&039;t the modern world alloomen more freedom than that?"

"I suppose," Pea lanced up at Venus "I just feel like a fool"

"Why?"

Pea sighed "I iot really, really intimate with him But the truth is I don&039;t know him at all I mean, I was there to try to connect with Griffin, theabout for over a year, but I end up with another s"

"Tell me why you felt you had such a connection with thethe conversation away frooing to sound silly and romantic," Pea said

"Which means I&039;ll be able to understand perfectly Tell me," Venus coaxed

"Well, I just felt this incredible connection with hi dark eyes of his and see his soul And, somehow, it seemed like he and I were the sas in co in"

Venus raised a brow at that "Really? How did you two meet?"

"He just appeared all of a sudden It really eet He thought he needed to rescue me from this jerk who didn&039;t want to take no for an answer" Pea smiled for the first time since she&039;d left the restaurant "He asked if he could buy me a drink, and I said okay Then we talked and talked He was sensitive and ro led to another, and ere suddenly alone, and all I could think about was how a he felt and howfuriously

"Darling, you did nothing wrong Well, except not learning his name," Venus said

"But what about Griffin and - "

"Griffin wasn&039;t the one who pursued you, this ht time to tell her that her supposed beloved Griffin had fornicated with and then discarded the Goddess of Love herself?

"I know, and I know it&039;s probably wrong, but I can&039;t help but still feel this thing for Griffin"

Pea&039;s eyes started to shiain, and Venus realized that noas definitely not the right ti you feel actually for Griffin or for the idea of what Griffin represents to you?"

Venus asked gently

"I don&039;t know," Pea said

"You are interested in the ht, aren&039;t you?" Venus redirected the conversation again

Pea nodded "But I don&039;t even knoho he is"