Axiom| ✔

Stage 5: F*ck Stage Five

Fûck Stage Five

Signs: defying the social norms expected to feel after being cheated on.

Zeus was gone within 45 minutes. He took his favorite car and left without another word. He knew that Hera was right and there was no point in fighting that fact.

As Hera watched his car leave the driveway, she felt lighter with every passing second.

She was no longer wedded. She was no longer a burden. She was no longer trapped.

She was free.

Months passed and with every month that passes Hera became happier.

Her business was thriving, she had made new friends, and most importantly to her, Hermes and her relationship blossom further and there were now the best of friends.

She hadn't heard anything from Zeus and that made her ecstatic. This meant that he accepted the fact that she wanted a divorce and that she wasn't going to change her mind.

However that didn't last long.

Hera sat at the head of her table of the table eating breakfast and looking through binders for weddings that she was planning, finalizing minor details.

"My Queen." Kaitlyn bowed.

Hera smiled. "Kaitlyn, I've told you many times to call me 'Hera'."

Kaitlyn rose and smiled a nervous smile. " my apologies, Hera. I have mail."

Hera put down the binder and folder her hands. Curiosity was grabbing her by the crown. "Really? Who from?"

"King Zeus."

Her heart dropped for a second before she caught herself and extended her hand to retrieve the letter Kaitlyn was offering her.

The letter was indeed from Zeus. His hand writing was on the envelope. He had wrote the mailing address.

"I'll give you some privacy." Kaitlyn left the room.

Hera nodded her head and looked at the envelope for a little bit before opening the letter.

"Dear Hera,

I've been holding off this letter for a while in hopes that you'd call one day and tell me to return to you. I guess holding off this letter was pointless, because that call never came. In the few months that we spent away from each other I've done a lot of self evaluation and I just wanted to say that I am truly sorry. I was a terrible husband and that's if you could even call me a husband to begin with. I ignored you and made you feel like you didn't belong. I have put you through hell and made you bitter. I had over 100 children that weren't ours, fell in love with another woman and I somehow expected you to push through it all and overlook my wrong doings. I brought women into our home, —a place in which you should feel comfortable—, and spat on our marriage. I've been a terrible person. I'm sorry. I'm so so so so sorry. I am the cause for a lot of things that went wrong in our relationship and I wish I acknowledged that fact sooner. I am no longer going to hold you upside down and strangle you with my selfish actions. There are more papers in this envelope that will make our divorce official. I have signed each and every document granting you what you desire."