Olympian Blood

Chapter 30

Artemis

Upon opening Aaron's door I was greeted with his goofy smiling face that made my heart quicken and my feet go numb.

He sat behind his messy desk waiting patiently for me to come in. I took the chance to look him over. His curls were falling down in his face, the black short-sleeved shirt he was wearing was slightly wrinkled, but as I trailed down his muscular arms I could see the ink drawings along his brown skin.

He had tattoos, a lot of them it seemed. Covering both of his arms were layers of tattoos I couldn't believe I never saw them before!

Had this been the first time seeing him with short sleeves?

"Hey Snow, are you gonna come in or continue to drool over me from afar?" Aaron said with amusement laced in his voice.

"Oh please I wasn't drooling I was observing," I said kicking the door closed.

"Well, whatever you call it come over here, I'm starving!" He said walking over to the red couch.

I rolled my eyes.

"You know you could always come and eat with everyone else at the table," I said walking over to the couch.

"Ha and miss this quality time with you? I would never!" He said as he took the tray away from me.

I shook my head and sat down.

"Well, you should start eating lunch then. You don't eat much as it is we don't need you passing out on us." I said grabbing my plate.

"Aww Snowflake are you worried about me?"

He moved closer to my face making me look into his eyes. My gaze traveled down to his lips his tongue brushed against them slightly, making my throat go dry. I caught myself having to reach for my glass of water.

I drank too fast and began coughing out all the water.

I felt Aarons hand patting my back and looking over at me.

Once I caught my breath I looked over to him to see the concern in his eyes.

I chuckled.

"Look who's worried now," I said with a smirk.

I expected him to say some cheeky remark like usual but instead, he looked serious.

"Hey be more careful. Drink slower next time." He said as he rubbed my back one last time before his warmth was gone.

I simply nodded my head.

We both fell into a comfortable silence as we ate tonight's dinner which was seafood pasta.

"So how was your day with Athena?" Aaron asked.

"It was fine I guess"

"Cool I've noticed you two don't really hang out as much as you guys do with Apollo is there a reason?"

"It's nothing really. I mean we're both just closer with Apollo rather than with each other. They were glued at the hip growing up. Apollo was the fun older sibling while I was the strict one. I had no time to play with her." I said with a shrug.

"Sounds like you had to mature fast."

"In ways, yeah."

"I know how you feel," He said smiling sadly.

"So how about you? What did you do today?" I asked finishing up my food.

He let out a stressful sigh that made me want to give him a hug.