Chapter 45. Zerx and Sea (2)

Zeus had stopped thinking nowadays, stopped smiling and pretending to be patient with anyone. When he looked into the mirror the person who graced him was even unrecognizable to his own self.

Once he had begged Hera to show mercy to Semele when he had an affair with her and when Hera had laughed and proceeded anyway he found her to be so very cruel. He hated that side of her, who knew that one day would come where she herself would place the woman to be the queen, at her position and Zeus himself would hate Semele to guts.

As said by her, all the mortal women that she cursed were given her parts of power and they had gone ahead to live a better fulfilling life, some even worshiped in Hera’s shrine themselves but the one who could do nothing and just sit was Zeus.

It had been three decades since she left and nothing remained the way it was, Hebe who had once the apple of his eye had grown considerably cold toward him, Ares never visited him anymore and his mortal ch