Chapter 56

The god of sleep walked down the hallway, a slight spring to his step. He hadn’t felt quite... Excited? Yeah, excited was the word. He had not felt that way in a long time. Hell, the last time he had been excited was when he was to meet Pasithea.

But that quickly took a turn for the worse anyway, didn’t it? One minute he was waiting to see his beloved, the next, Zeus stormed out of nowhere, carrying his damned thunderbolt, ready to haul it on his ass. Next thing he knew, Hera was by her husband’s side, playing the fucking good wife and suggesting that he, Hypnos, be banished out of Olympus to be taught a lesson.

Fucking hilarious.

The very same goddess who had hired him to fool her husband on the basis that Pasithea would be his.

He would never trust Hera. Never again. She was, what did the mortals call it? Bitch? Ah yes, she was a bitch ready to sink her canines into whoever she perceived was a threat to her. She was evil, and he didn’t understand why the wo