My Mate is a Traitor

3. The farewell hug

In the Crystal Palace

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I looked everywhere for my sisters but still I couldn’t find Clo nor Arti.

Damn!

Where could they be?

I looked once again around hoping that I would find them speaking with someone when suddenly something weird catched my attention. In the dark corner I saw Hermes. It was weird because Hermes was mostly never alone and he was always the first that was enjoying the parties. But not today. He was standing alone, almost in the shadows in the dark corner of the hall far away from others. I was wondering if he was observing them all or was waiting for someone. Whether he was observing or waiting for someone I stepped forward to him because I had some questions for him but after some steps I suddenly froze.

S…t!

What was SHE doing there?

I saw a woman stepping from the shadows. Even when I didn’t clearly see the woman’s face I knew without any doubts that this woman was our mother. There were no other Goddesses that would dare to take the same dress as she. Her dress was unique and I clearly saw the embroidered flowers on the white dress. So there was no way that I would be mistaken her for someone else. It was definitely Nyx. Our mother!

F…ck!

This couldn’t be true!

I was disgusted seeing how intimately she touched Hermes'es shoulders not knowing that there was someone looking at her.

I sighed and I closed my eyes.

This was something new. Not that Nyx had lovers but that her lover was Hermes himself. I always thought that he hated her because every time when my mother was around he was mocking her. We were wondering why she tolerated his behavior but no one would expect that this was the true reason.

I opened my eyes and exactly in that second I regretted that I didn’t look somewhere else. As soon as I opened my eyes I saw those two kissing and I almost vomited.

Meh. It was grouse seeing my mother kissing someone. I wanted to look away when my sight met the Hermes'es.

Damn!

He noticed me!

He stopped kissing my mother and still looking at me he smiled as he was just waiting for that moment.

Seeing him smiling like that I rolled my eyes. Knowing that Nyx was still not looking my way I sticked out tongue at him. I knew that it was childish but I couldn’t help myself. I was really disappointed seeing him hugging and kissing my mother. He was the one that I admired before because I thought that he saw how our mother truly was and now? He ruined everything.

I was so angry that I wanted to go away but suddenly I saw that he started to laugh. He laughed so honest that I stayed there because I couldn’t move at all. I never saw someone laughing like that. When Hermes laughed I clearly saw bright light around him. Seeing him laughing like that with a bright light around him I almost forgot why I got angry. Almost!

Damn!

I shaked with my head just to stay focused. I closed my eyes and I turned around. "I will find him later! Hopefully he will be till then alone and ready to answer my question but now I have to do something else."

I had something in my room that I had to give to Clotho before it would be too late. "She will definitely need it." I wanted to give it to her as a birthday gift but we wouldn’t be together on her birthday so it was better to give it now but I still had to find her before.

Hurriedly not looking around I walked out from the hall. Some of the Gods saw me leaving and they were trying to stop me but I didn’t stop. Some of them were greeting me so I just smiled from right to the left and I excused myself to them. There was no time for fun.

As soon as I left the Hall of Glory I lifted up my long rock for me to be able to run. I looked at my shoes. Seeing my flat crystal shoes I was happy that I didn’t choose today the high heels because I would definitely kill myself trying to run on high heels. I knew it because I already tried it once and yeah…

It didn’t end well.

Normally I would shift to my room but I didn’t want to miss my sisters on the way so I decided to run but soon I found that this was a terrible idea.

I didn’t know that running in tight corset could be highly dangerous. But it was. After a few meters I almost couldn’t breathe. Knowing that running like that was really bad idea I decided to shift to my room. I could still run after I would change to something more comfortable.

In the next second I was already in my room and I was getting off my amazing but uncomfortable dress.

I took a green light short dress and I took the necklace that I had for my sister. For a second I thought that I would go back to the party to find my sisters but suddenly I knew where they were. So I closed my eyes and I focused.

Suddenly I appeared right in front of the Clotho’s room. Hearing my sisters voices I knew that I was right and they were there.

When I was now there standing behind Clotho’s door I was wondering if it was appropriate to go inside. I had doubts. What if they wanted to be alone? But I wanted to be inside with them. So I slowly opened the door and totally unsure if they wanted me there I said:

“There you are.”

I looked at them and for a second my heart stopped. I saw Clotho hugging Arti and gently petting her hair. For a second I thought that I was in my dream because Clotho would never be petting anyone. I even pinched myself to be sure that I was not dreaming. When I felt how hurtful my pinch was I knew that this wasn’t a dream. It was unbelievable but still a reality. Clotho was hugging and petting Artis'es hair. I almost ended with opened mouth because Clotho was never hugging us before. Not at once. She was always cold to us. We knew that she loved us and her coldness was just a tool how to please our mother because there were two rules that our mother thought us:

1. Never fall in love

2. Never show your feelings

And Clotho would never go against our mother. So she would never show her true feelings in front of us.

Seeing her now breaking one of those rules made me happy and I smiled at her. Finally!

I was waiting for this moment so long. When Clotho saw me smiling and still standing near the door she smiled at me gently and she said just one word:

“Come”

I wasn’t waiting anymore and I ran towards my sisters with open arms. When we hugged together I almost started to cry. I thought that this was the happiest moment in my life but I didn’t know that my sister was still not done yet.

“I love you more than anything else and now it’s almost the time. So please behave and don’t make me worry.” whispered Clotho and my heart melted.

This was the best moment in my life and I never forgot it.

I wanted to be like that little bit longer but Clo was right. It was almost the time. Each of us felt that the air has changed. Soon the portal will be open and Clotho will be shifted to Earth.

Damn!

Suddenly I remembered that there was still something that I had for her so I stepped back and turned Clotho around. When she was backwards I gently put on her neck the necklace.

“This is the necklace of eden a farewell gift from us. It contains a drop of a blood of each of us and if your life or our will be in danger we will inmediately know it. It was also enchanted so that no one will be able to detect the magic in it so don’t worry. For everyone it will be just a beautiful necklace.”

I wanted to say more but for a second I saw Clotho thoughts. She was too upset that she was leaving us and she didn’t want that the last thing what would we see would be her crying face. She was hoping that we would say nothing more. Knowing all that I just looked at Arti and we both hugged our sister in our farewell hug.

Suddenly we felt that it was time. We looked at each other for the last time. When I saw Clotho vanishing I wished that she will stay safe there without us and that she will come back soon to us because we will be patiently waiting for her.