All Grown Up (Sequel To WDE)

13.

Ares Pov

I suck in my breath as Monica gets on the phone with the men. I hated the harsh reality of it all. I want my son.

She tells him I'm not Zeus' father. I hold my breath in. She places him on speaker.

"So who is the father?"

"I don't know ..." Monica says. "I always thought it was Ares, but I'm not sure."

"Ugh. Doesn't matter. I'll extend his stay until three months."

"Really?"

"Yes. That should be enough time to acquire a million dollars."

"What? "

"Have it or the boy dies."

He hangs up.

"A million dollars? The hell am I going to do to get a milly?" I shout. I need Adonis here.

"I don't know."

"If I never would've met you..."

"You wouldn't have Zeus," she said trying to comfort me.

I shake her off. "Newsflash. He could be my cousin! I put my family in Jamaica because of you!"

"Me? I didn't tell you to kill the man!"

I stand up. "I never told you to set up my family either."

She rolled her eyes.

A million dollars in three months. I make less than that in three years. I sigh.

"What's the plan? " I ask.

"Plan? Get a million bucks."

I scowl. I fucked this broad? I growled deep within. "You left Zeus at my door step. You left him fifteen to sixteen years ago with me. You gave him away -"

"Ares."

"You traded him for your own personal reasons. You threw him on me and pressured me into losing my virginity-"

"Ares, don't start that shit."

"I lost my virginity and went to war! I could've died! Zeus would have no father or mother -"

"Ares!"

"And you fucked my own cousin! My own flesh and blood! Don't you think I've been through enough?!"

"Why is everything about you?" She kissed her teeth.

"It's about me when you left your son and set him up to be kidnapped and murdered?" I pushed past her. "You'll never change."

"Maybe I'm not the one that's changed, " she mumbles.

I turn. "What?"

"You've been with that big bitch so long you forgot what a real woman looks like."

I scoff. "Big bitch? My wife has never been big nor a bitch. She gave me two kids that gave me more reasons to live besides her smile." I walk out. "Oh, and, a real woman? Baby , you were never that."

-

Zeus' Pov

I breathe deeply. My dad isn't my dad. Ares isn't my father? I've known him ALL my life and he was always there.

This can't be true. He seemed like my dad to me. This is a tactic to free me, right?

I text him but I get no reply.

Adam looks at me. He opens his mouth, then closes it. He repeats then sighs.

"Adam, your whore is here to see you!" Aamir said.

"Whore?" I ask.

He groans and shakes his head. "Long story. She doesn't belong to me." I hear him then mumble, "I don't even want her."

A short, slightly plump girl gets shoved in. I marvel at her skin and eyes as she struggles to cover herself.

"Adam," she says in a thick accent that isn't middle eastern.

"Maya," he says.

She closes the door. She notices me. "Are you Zeus?"

"Yes." I gasp. She's beautiful.

She nods then sits beside Adam. "I need you to take a look at this." She lifts up her shirt, exposing bruises near her ribs.

Adam sighs. I get off the bed. "I can take a look at it." I've been interested in anatomy and chemistry for a long time now. It fascinates me. I've watched "Untold Stories of the E.R." and "Scrubs" and "Law and Order:SVU".

Adam moves and I examine the deep bluish marks.

"Breathe in," I say. "Does it hurt?"

She inhales. "No."

"No broken or fractured ribs. You need ice to slow the blood flow to the bruise."

She quickly pulls down her shirt and says thank you.

Adam finds a cold bottle. "This is the closest thing I have." She presses it near her skin.

I sit back. I absorb her very essence. She looks afraid.

"When is the wedding?" She asks Adam.

"Wedding?"

Adam looks at me. "We're engaged. It's an arranged marriage."