"Hm !" lazily opening her eyes Hera was hit by the ray of the sun in her eyes
"Close the window!" she said to no one in particular, it was something that she often said before getting up or closing them herself
But this time it was different
"Sure thing…"
She heard a masculine voice respond before the curtain was pull
"Ha,"
The sound of the voice immediately shook her away as she looked at Maeron standing on the bed beside her with his usual smile with only a towel at the waist and water still dripping on his body
"Wh-What!?"
She just stayed seated on the messy bed remembering what they had done the night before
"I-I really did huh!"
"Yes we did it, a lot in fact," pointing at specific places in the room "We did it here, here, here,…"
"Okay I get it, don't say more,"
"Do you regret it?!" asked Maeron seeing Hera that pensive
"Noo! A little, it was not a very thoughtful decision," she explains
Hearing that Maeron remains impassible, but in his mind, he was thinking
'Of course, it was not a thoughtful decision, I made sure of that, you wouldn't have accepted otherwise, I feel a little bad for tricking her like that,'
He then leans toward the knee on the bed he asked
"So do you regret it," he asked her a few inches away from her
"I kind of do, I let alcohol and emotion guide my action, what I mean is I'm just a little worried about what you want to do, I know very few things about you and what you plan to do after all," she explains
"True,"
Maeron responded with a smile
"You are right that I kind of played on your emotions, sorry for that," he said before her again and got in the bed and pushed Hera to lean on him putting her at ease
Maeron being a master of manipulation and reading people's emotions was able to put her at ease right away
"Let me tell you my identity and explain my plan to you, my dear goddess," he said tenderly
About half an hour later Hera was seated on the bed massaging her temple
"So you really are…"
"An Olympian, yep, I told you that already, So you believe me now," he asked
"It's just hard to accept, and what's that part about sleeping with other goddesses do you really believe that I'm gonna accept to go along with that stupid plan? Whith would I go from a cheating husband to another as lustful and unfaithful?!" she replied slamming a pillow in his face
Hearing that question Maeron tilted his head toward the sky with a pensive expression before responding
"I knew you didn't listen to that part, huh well to answer your question, because I'm as strong as him already and will continue to grow, I'm younger, smarter, kinder, and will help you get your revenge for the multiple humiliations that you endure, didn't rape you and made you my slave when I could, still can Better at sex your own admission…"
After a while hearing him list all those points Hera herself became a little speechless,
"There is so much, oh yes another point maybe the most important one, unlike other gods like you I have a near-perfect knowledge of divinity which allows me to do that,"
Once he ended his sentence a massive orb of power irradiated the room with its splendor, it was the most beautiful thing that Hera the queen of Olympus had ever seen, she couldn't move her eyes away from it.
At the same time she could also feel a strange feeling of attraction coming from that orb, she could also feel the the orb wanted to fly inside her
"Wh-What is that," she asked with curiosity and a hint of fear in her voice as she could guess what it was but was a little afraid of saying it out loud
"I will be disappointed if you can't tell what it is," responded Maeron to the goddess who continued to fix the orb without moving
"A divinity," she said after a while
"Good answer, it is indeed a divinity, now the question is whose divinity is it," he asked again with a tone that resembled a parent teaching his kid or a teacher to a student
"Mine…It's my divinity, divinity of marriage, but how, how are you able to take my divinity?!" she asked in surprise and fear, she then closed her eyes as if looking inside herself to find her divine power
"Fiouu," letting out a sigh of relief "It's still there," she said after constating the her power that she still felt inside her then she turned to Maeron who still had the orb in his hand
"How, if I still have my divinity how do you have the same, it's impossible!!"
"Didn't I say that I will take one of your powers in exchange for the information on your traitorous subordinate?! I did it when we were having sex together, was I so good that you didn't feel!"
Not being in the mood for pleasantry she just focused on the important information he told her and tried to remember what happened last night and she indeed remembered that she felt something leave her body little by little at that time but it was nothing alarming, it was so imperceptible that she didn't pay attention to it.
"Was it what I felt, but it was not disagreeable," she remark
"Because I didn't want it to be disagreeable, I could have just yanked it from you causing you at the same time unbearable pain that would last forever but I have a bit of a crush on you, so,"
Seeing Maeron so nonchalant made Hera realize that he was even more dangerous than she had previously estimated, at least he is much more dangerous than Zeus, and she became to be convinced that her choice to side with him was the right one.
"I use the fact that you and I were connected yesterday to slowly make it pass from you to me and from me to you again while keeping part of it and it seems that I didn't make any mistake even though it was my first time, I'm indeed a genius,"
Said Maeron clearly satisfied with his accomplishment
"First time!" she exclaims outraged "Does that mean that you used me as guinea pig,"
"It was a calculated risk, and I would have reversed things if it was going in a bad direction, didn't everything go well? It means I was right,"
Maeron explains his reasoning and plan to the angry goddess in front of him
"Hm," she just scoffed at his explanation
"It doesn't explain everything, for example, why is your orb that powerful, nearly half as powerful as mine and I seem to have gained a little more power too," she asked Maeron the curiosity and desire in her eyes obvious to anyone and it rejoices him
"That is because you slept with me," he responded
"Huh," she showed a skeptical look when she heard his answer
"I'm serious by making the power move between us some kind of synergy appeared which made our power grow," he explains and at that, she shut up her mind started to wander about the amount of power she could gain just by sleeping with Maeron
'If it's true then maybe, just maybe using that method I can catch up to him, if I become his equal I will no longer have to, no maybe I can surpass him, and create a base of a power superior to his as he said in his plan,' her eyes shone with a bright light as she thought
Beside her, Maeron could nearly see what she was thinking about with how enthusiastic she was and couldn't help but congratulate himself
'Good job me…' thought Maeron seeing her like that
'…to make her believe that I have to sleep with her to take the powers and create that synergy and grow our power was genius, I shouldn't let her notice that I can do the same without the sex part,'
"Are you thinking of selling me of?!" suddenly the voice of Maeron interrupted her train of thought
"How do you?! Are you reading my thoughts again,"
"I didn't need to, you seemed quite enthusiastic you know, it was literally written on your forehead," he explains
"Haa,"
"You know I'm kind of hurt, I thought I was special to you, but you now seem so ready to sell me out,"
Said Maeron with an exaggeratedly sad expression,
"It was part of your plan!!" she defended herself
"Soo, now that you seem completely on board with our plan, how about you comfort me a little before we start the next part of the plan after all being used like like a vulgar cheap whore isn't very pleasant," he said pushing her down on the bed
"We are already dressed for the occasion," he said looking at her who was only covered by the sheet of the bed
"Hm, you said that like that when in truth I know that it is what you wanted, me giving you permission and access to the goddess of Olympus," she replied looking at the wicked glint in his eyes as he started kissing her body.