Howling Hearts

Scarlet:

My head was spinning at their words and it just felt unbelievable. My jaw hung open and then tried to form words that seemed to not want to come out.

"Wait, what do you mean?" I eventually got out and stared at the both of them with a questioning gaze.

They looked at each other strangely before looking back at me. "Scarlet, your pregnant", My mother said, as if it was just common knowledge.

I turned around and found a seat nearby, sitting down due to the shock.

"Didn't you know?" Astraeus asked in a caring tone that seemed weird coming from him but still something I could get used

to.

It seemed like him and his son were worlds apart. While Lucian was warm and friendly, his father was cold and fierce. They both held each aspect of each other to an extent but yet they were their own people and not a copy of one another. "Scarlet?" My mother placed her hand on my knee and crouched down to meet my gaze. I shook my head slowly whilst looking into nothingness.

"Don't you want the child?" My mother continued and I shook my head again in protest.

"No me... and, Lucians..., been...trying", I said in a confused and unsure tone.

"Then what's wrong?"

"I just thought I'd find out in a better way I guess" I put on a smile to hide my thoughts but truly I was hoping it would only happen on a better timeline. One where we weren't at war with the most powerful being.

One where I and Lucian's lives weren't at stake, where we could have been happy instead of fearful of what might be waiting for us around the corner.

"I should go tell Lucian, "I said, and they both nodded.

"But before I do, I have some questions for the two of you" I said looking between the two of them.

They both summoned chairs out of nowhere and sat down politely in frontof me.

"We knew you'd eventually ask", My mother said, anticipating what was about to come next.

"You want to know why we aren't on good terms with Zeus". She said and hit the nail right on the head. I nodded my head in agreement and my mother sighed deeply. "Zeus has been out of control for a while.

Not that weever had control, but he has lost touch with what a leader should be.

He has become cruel, violent and controlling over the rest of us. Especially to our family, he placed your father to sleep for all of eternity.

He locked up Astraeus along with others for years. And at the moment, he is ruining marriages right and center by sleeping with women. " "That's absolutely horrible. He's worse than I could've imagined...but Atreus isn't family of me"

I said,quickly, fixing an issue that I had heard.

"He is scarlet". My eyes grew wide. "No,no,no. That would make Lucian my blood relative and that's just incest."Text content © NôvelDrama.Org.

They both fell into a laughing frenzy and I couldn't spot what was funny about this

. "Please tell me I'm not carrying an incest baby"

"No Scarlet, I married your mother's sister Eos"

"that would still make this incest" I said. He giggled at my reply.

"Lucian isn't my true son, he is the son of my brother Perses, but he couldn't take care of him, so we had taken him in as our own"

He continued and I let out a big breath of relief before I realized we weren't entirely in the clear.

"Please tell me that Lucians mother isn't related to me."

I asked kind of dreading whatever the response might be.

"No child she isn't" my mother said and I fell back into the chair.

"Good" I said feeling relieved.

"I think it's time for me to go back but I'm just not sure how to do it" I said looking between the two of them. My mother stood up and led me out of the room and to where I had originally come in from.

As I stood at the spot from earlier, she held my hand. "Now imagine your home" She said and I closed my eyes,

imagining Lucian sleeping in bed peacefully whilst I combed the hair out of his face with my fingers feeling his soft skin and being in total awe of him.

"You won't be getting rid of me that easily" I heard Aiden's voice in the distance.

"Go now my child" my mother reassured me and soon my eyes started to flutter open.

The woman's nails left my skull and I saw Lucian's face light up at the sight of me.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him and he kind of seemed offended at my words.

"Princess, you've been in a Trans for hours now and you're asking me what I'm doing here?" He asked in a offended tone. "It couldn't have been hours" I quickly grabbed my phone to see it was about 3 hours roughly that I've been gone "Well my skin better be as soft as a babies bum if I was this long in a mud bath" I said giggling and it seemed like I was the only one to find that funny.

My giggling slowed down before it completely disappeared. "Well are we being attacked?" Lucian asked and I just shook my

head.

"Well what could you have spoken to those asses for 3 hours about?" He fisted his free hand into a ball. I could tell he wasn't happy in regard to what had happened.

I didn't expect him to be. But I hated seeing him like this. "I'm sorry princess, I didn't mean to get angry with you", he said. Feeling guilty.

I moved forward and kissed the top of his head, reassuring him it was OK. "I wish I could've told you this on better terms but Lucian, I'm pregnant."