Desire of the Gods Book Two Achilles

By Marianna Green

In book one of this series, Paula Willis had humoured a neighbour in performing a magical ritual to summon the sun god Apollo to help her with a love problem. When the arrogant, vain immortal appeared, the mischievous love god Eros followed him and fired a dart on him, making him fall in love with the ordinary looking Paula himself.
Now in book two, Paula, though she finds the besotted Immortal physically irresistible, also finds him impossible to control, so when he suggests a visit to Olympus, she is only too happy to oblige.
Here she has a wonderful time - but there is trouble brewing with Apollo's old enemy the demi-god warrior Achilles, for Eros is up to his tricks again...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Freya
• Release date: Oct 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370886708

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Desire of the Gods

Apollo and Achilles

Book Two

A paranormal sensual romance series

By

Marianna Green

Copyright © 2016 Marianna Green

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter One

Paula opened her eyes gingerly, still holding onto Apollo.

The first thing she noticed about Olympus was the wonderful scent of herbs and flowers in her nostrils and the sunshine so brilliantly golden. The landscape was typically Greek, with the distant hills and the olive groves all about. The birdsong was loud, almost drowning the buzz of the bees and the chirp of the crickets.

There was, of course, no sound of distant traffic. It was far wilder here than you could ever find in the Greece of the last few centuries. Then she noticed the masses of butterflies flitting about; she had never seen so many on Earth, though her grandmother had told her about when there were huge numbers.

Here, you could believe in satyrs and lurking strange powers. Apollo, wild and golden, fitted the landscape exactly and his clothes had changed from those he wore in London, UK; now he was back in the strange short kilt like garment he’d been in when he first appeared to her.

Paula was nervous, particularly about meeting the other Immortals. Whatever would they think of the great Sun God so madly in love with an ordinary looking mortal female with a pear shaped figure and a plain face? Well, maybe they wouldn’t object so much to the pear shaped figure; the statues she’d seen of the goddesses tended towards that shape.

She had agreed to come here with her Immortal lover for a visit to keep him happy. Besides, they needed to escape from the difficulties of life on earth together.

Back in London, England, he would come to her practically every night and that had been perfect. Suddenly, he would be there in her room, glowing golden, reaching to take her in those brawny arms, and kissing her so tenderly that her heart leapt into her throat.

Nobody could resist that sort of treatment; she didn’t like to admit it, but she knew she was falling for the Sun God already, though she had tried so hard not to. She’d fought against it because a long term relationship between a mortal and a god seemed impossible, and besides, hadn’t he said himself that it was fated for his love affairs always to end sadly?

The Sun God had also spent every weekend with her, and that did lead to complications. He thought he did a good job at playing a human, but he couldn’t do it well for any length of time.

Her housemate Kirsty didn’t try and hide her envy. This new man of yours must be the most handsome I’ve ever seen in my life, it’s incredible - and that’s counting film stars. However did you get so lucky? It’s hardly surprising he’s so arrogant. Still, it’s weird; sometimes I could swear he gives off this odd glow. Hey, the name ‘Apollo’ really suits him - he looks just like the Greek god, doesn’t he?

Er, does he? It’s just his golden colouring that makes him seem to glow.

He does act funny at times, though, like he comes from another planet…You say his parents lived in a remote spot in Greece and had strange ideas?

She thought it odd too, the way Paula suddenly had a run of good luck in other areas of her life. She’d been promoted at work, though she was the least qualified person on the shortlist for the job and hadn’t even tried at the interview. Suddenly, life was incredibly easy generally. Their noisy neighbours were strangely quiet and polite. Some company sent Paula a check for ten thousand pounds, saying that she’d won a prize draw two years ago and never claimed it.

Apollo had insisted on creating a lot of replacement furniture, including solid chairs that didn’t wobble when he threw his muscular frame down into them as her old ones had. He’d asked Paula what time period she wanted, and she’d said reproduction Victorian.

When he found out that Paula longed to replace the carpets with hardwood flooring, he had done that for her, too. Luckily, Kirsty had been away on holiday that week. She’d done a double take when she returned. Paula, crossing her fingers behind her back, said that Apollo had got it done on the cheap. She had never seen Kirsty look so impressed.

It was lucky for her, she thought, that Apollo didn’t seem interested in Kirsty as a woman, despite her stunning looks.

I don’t like that flashy, obvious type, he’d said. Some people might say he looked a bit flashy an obvious himself, but as he was a god, that was different.

But then that fake charity collector had come round. Apollo had learnt all about him with one glance. He’d seized him and shaken him until his teeth rattled: You disgusting fraud! Give me one reason why you should live!

As Paula and Kirsty rushed yelling up behind him, Apollo made things even worse: I won’t be dictated to by mortals!

Paula groaned mentally. The Sun God dropped the petty thief, who stumbled out of the gate. Once out of reach, he’d turned to shout, You lunatic!

Apollo raised one hand, now not just glowing, but sparking; Paula knew what was coming and screamed: No!

The Sun God looked put upon: Oh, all right, my sweet…

Kirsty had just stood staring, her breath coming in gasps.

Apollo had to put a spell on her then, so she knew he was a god, but didn’t think it odd or want to tell anyone.

Then, Apollo forgot to turn off his golden glow when he took in a parcel one morning, and the postman had asked all sorts of questions about him.

Well, at least Apollo had done the impossible and charmed Paula’s mother when she phoned up. Mrs Willis had said; I’m so glad you got rid of that awful Nick, dear. I always said you could do better than him if only you’d believe in yourself. Overall, Paula had been quite happy to get away from the problems of life in modern London with Apollo as