Adonis and Aphroditus by Crystal Dawn Page B

information Julie had
just shared with them. Part of Hades plan was to take Julie with
them. It was his suspicion that she carried a god rather than a
fully human baby. Afrod had a suspicion of his own and that was
that Julie wouldn’t want to go. He said nothing, Hades could deal
with it when and if it happened.
    The pilot announced they were preparing to
land. Afrod was relieved and he hoped Hades had said all he
intended to. Covering everything thoroughly was good, repeating the
same information over and over was not. He strapped in like the
other gods did to prepare for the landing about to take place.
Hades was strapped in too and finally paying attention to something
else. He was talking on his headset and Afrod was sure he was
double checking the rental vehicles. Something he should probably
have done an hour ago. If they weren’t there now, they would have
to wait until someone brought them.
    Hades looked happy enough so they must be
waiting. The plane was dropping slowly and circling the airport.
They would be on the ground in fifteen minutes or less. There were
ten of them total just like Adonis’ team that had left before them.
He wondered how Adonis was doing and hoped all went well with their
mission. He jerked slightly as the plane touched down. A couple
taps against the ground and they were slowing down. They would pull
off to the side and exit there instead of entering directly into
the airport. The pilot would pull over to where the two SUVs waited
for them.
    They all grabbed their gear and exited the
plane. The SUVs stood waiting just as promised. He figured it was
lunch time because he was hungry but they wouldn’t eat until they
arrived. One thing all gods had been taught at a young age was
discipline. Once they arrived, checked into the hotel, and made
arrangements with Julie, they would see to their needs. Julie
worked from four pm until 1 am with a lunch break built in. They
should have enough time to talk to her before she was scheduled to
go to work.
    Hades wanted to fly by the seat of their
pants and Afrod saw no other choice. They would try to hack the
alarms and cameras and just bust down the doors and take their god
back. Julie didn’t think there were any babies or other gods on the
premises anymore. If they were getting ready to leave and had
allowed Apis to get in such bad shape, Afrod assumed they planned
to kill him when they left. That meant other prisoners, if there
ever had been any, had been sent ahead.
    It made less for them to focus on but they
were recovering less people too. He wasn’t sure what he preferred.
Apis would be the priority except for keeping Julie safe since he
was the only prisoner. They would, however, also be looking for
information on other facilities, females that had been bred, and
any babies Origin had harvested. Harvested was the term Origin used
for the involuntary insemination and later the stealing of the
babies from their mother’s wombs.
    Afrod wanted to catch every one of them and
send them to the deepest darkest hole he could find to live out
their lives without any kind of warmth or human kindness. It was
the least they deserved. The only Origin employees worth anything,
were the few that had been coerced into working for them. These
people were a minority, few and far between. Julie was one, but she
hadn’t even known who she was working for. It may not even have
been Origin but one of the companies they had purchased to hide
under.
    They were all loaded and the first SUV pulled
onto the road the other following closely behind. In an hour, give
or take a few minutes, they would be at the hotel according to the
GPS on the dash. The hotel was ten minutes from Julie’s and they
would call hoping she would meet them. Afrod thought she would
since she had been protective and concerned enough about Apis to
risk not only her life, but her baby’s. Having done so much, what
was a little more? They would tempt her additionally by ordering
food for her. He