The Effects of Betrayal

Chapter 21

A few months had passed since that night I'd spent with Hebe, Although I didn't know it then, that night had just been the beginning of an affair that would last for quite a while. I had mixed feelings about the whole thing, it's not because of any feelings for Hebe, I don't have any aside from finding her attractive, it's not even that Normally I wouldn't have any kind of relationship with a married person other than friendship,  I know that  Hebe's husband is Hercules, and I knew enough about them both to know that Hebe had been forced to marry him and that he doesn't treat her very well. I didn't really feel guilty about it, she was an attractive woman who deserved better than him, and Hercules is an asshole who honestly deserves worse.

What bothers me is that I'm sure that sooner or later someone will find out despite everything we do to keep it secret. I wasn't cheating on Apollo since we still have an open relationship, I didn't have romantic feelings for Hebe, and our encounters had all been sexual and nothing more. I'm pretty sure that she doesn't have romantic feelings for me either, she just calls me occasionally when Hercules isn't around, and if I'm not busy I'll go be with her, or sometimes like that first night she comes to me.

Also like that first night, I always make sure I use protection when I'm with her because I don't want to get her pregnant. I have had enough children for a while, and getting her pregnant would cause problems for us that we didn't want to have to deal with. The other gods don't need to know about what we have been doing. Despite all that Affairs rarely stay secret forever so I figured that sooner or later someone would find out. Either someone would walk in on us, or she could get pregnant if the condom breaks or for some reason in the heat of the moment I forget to use one, I was considering just calling the whole thing off although I do enjoy it.

I suspected that if he found out, Haracles would probably want to fight me. I wasn't sure but he might even complain about it to Zeus.  If he did that, Zeus definitely wouldn't be happy with me, the hypocrite,  after all, Heracles was the result of Zeus sleeping with another man's wife, although you could definitely argue that it hadn't been consensual since Zeus had made  himself look like Alcmene's husband so she would sleep with him. Regardless, I wasn't going to worry about that right now since I don't have to, and I may call the whole thing off before I do.

I doubted I Would be seeing Hebe today, since I already have plans with Apollo, until then I just took care of my duties and visited my children, once it was evening, Apollo and I met up before we went to a restaurant in New York,  we didn't bother hiding the fact that we are a couple, we don't care what anyone else thinks about us, although once we were seated and waiting for our food, I eventually heard a guy at a nearby table make a homophobic comment to another person at his table about us, that included calling us fags.

I was pretty sure that Apollo heard him too. More than anything I was annoyed, and I was pretty sure  Apollo felt the same way. He had no idea he'd just insulted the wrong couple,  Apollo and I were both silent for a moment, and I wondered if we were both doing the same thing, that thing was cursing the guy. Was that overreacting a bit? maybe, but No one should say things like that.

Once I was done Apollo contacted me mentally, yes gods can do that, and asked, "Did you do something to him too?"

I replied, "Yes, from now on he won't be able to do anything that requires courage since I made him a coward. What did you do to him?

He replied, "I gave him a chronic disease, nothing that will kill him, I thought that might be going a bit far, but his life will be much worse now,"

I nodded and went back to speaking normally, "Well, he will  never realize why these things happened to him, but his life will definitely suck,"

Apollo agreed, and not long after that our food came. Nothing else out of the ordinary happened, so the rest of the date was normal. Our date may not have gone entirely to plan considering we had ended up cursing a homophobic guy, but it had still been good in the end.  After we left the restaurant we went back to Apollo's palace, and it wasn't long before our clothes were scattered over the floor and we were in his bed.