Thief Of Truth's Heart

Chapter 33

"Lana, what exactly are you doing?"

Apollo watched his wife from the couch with an amused expression as she slammed shut the door to their residence before falling to the floor in a fit of giggles.

Atlanta looked at her husband while giggling. "I am evil, Phoebus. You said last day that I can never do any wrong. Well, you can safely say now that I am also capable of grave sins."

Apollo raised his eyebrows in surprise. "Oh yeah? Then tell me Lana, what was the 'evil deed' that you committed today?"

"You know how the fast food place on Olympus added a new food item on their menu?", Atlanta asked her husband.

"Yes. And?", Apollo gently prodded his wife to explain further.

"So they were handing out free samples today. They were all kept on the table to the side, and I was walking by the place before noticing that those were actually free cupcake samples.", Atlanta spoke before giving a guilty smile. "I took a second cupcake after taking the first one. I love thievery."

Apollo tried to stop the smile which was threatening to bloom on his face. "Really?"

"Yes.", Atlanta agreed proudly before giving her best friend a sheepish look. "But then I felt guilty about stealing a cupcake, so I put double the amount of drachmas for the cupcakes on the main desk as compensation."

"Oh Lana.", Apollo sighed with a small smile on his face as he shook his head and went to softly hug his adorable wife. "You are honestly a small bean of cuteness, you know?"

"No!! I am evil.", Atlanta tried to defend herself. "If I were mortal, I would have gone to the Fields of Punishment for such a crime."

"If such a 'crime' were so grave as you say, then the Elysium that Uncle Hades is working on, for providing a rewarding afterlife for the mortals, wouldn't exist.", Apollo gently told his wife before softly  kissing her forehead.

Atlanta tried to push her husband's arms away as she answered with a pout. "You are not taking this seriously. I stole from a shop, Phoebus!! I took an extra cupcake!!"

"Which were free samples to begin with, and you paid double the amount for the two free cupcakes that you 'stole'.", Apollo sighed again. "If every mortal were as 'evil' as you, then the world would have been a better place to live in. And the Gods would have been benevolent people instead of the selfish gits that they are."

"I don't want to talk to you, Phoebus.", Atlanta pouted again before turning to face the wall with a grumpy look. "You don't believe me that I can steal too, do you?"

Apollo chuckled at his stubborn best friend. "Of course I believe you, Lana. I merely think that taking a free sample and then paying for it doesn't really count as thievery."

"Fine then!! I will do something even more evil than this!!", Atlanta threatened her husband before turning around once more with a serious expression. "It would be so much evil, that people would be horrified at the act that I would commit!!"

"All the best.", Apollo smiled at his cute best friend, fully knowing that his beloved Lana could never intentionally harm an innocent person, even if her life depended on it.

Atlanta sent her best friend a sour look. "No 'please don't do this' or 'I was wrong, you are really capable of evil deeds'?"

Apollo laughed brightly on hearing his wife's question. "I have a duty as your best friend to encourage you to do whatever you feel like doing. I am not going to stop you."