Forbidden To Love (The Erosians) by D Wills Read Free Book Online Page B

chance of getting any information if I go upstairs, so I walk back to the kitchen door and hide myself at the side of the wall. I know eavesdropping is wrong, but there’s more about our situation Allana isn’t telling me.
    “ Is he a puppet of yours, then?” Allana asks curtly.
    Amora giggles, “Maybe”
    My breath catches in my throat.
    “Amora,” Allana scolds
    “ Of course not,” Amora snaps back and I let out a deep breath. Phew!
    “ There are more important things in my life than messing with that irritating brat upstairs. Looks like she’s in a bit of a situation, though” her voice is thick with delight, “Maybe I should take a quick trip to Olympus and speak to …”              “You don’t need to tell him anything.” Allana’s voice is tense, her anger towards Amora finally surfacing.
     
    “You know as well as I do if she does anything, she’s finished.” Amora’s conceited voice rings clear. She wants the threat she’s making to reach me.
    “ My scars from Eros are still raw, not like you need reminding of what he is capable of doing - do you?”
    Oh my God, what would Eros do? Am I really in so much trouble because I sort of told a mortal, who I'm still not entirely convinced, is a mere mortal, I'm something more? I guess Allana has edited our history more than I thought. She never mentioned anything to me about Eros doing anything to cause scars.
    “Acacia hasn’t done anything, and I’ve told her to stay away from him”
    “ Please Allana wake up! The searing pain she described you know it was the flames of love, they’ve burned her. Like what I'm saying or not but she’s joined to that boy and Eros is going to bring all the power of the Furies against her for her infatuation”
    I barge into the kitchen this is about me and I want answers!
    “What are you talking about? Flames of love and Eros causing scars, what don’t I know about us?”
    “ A lot!” Amora scoffs as she hops up onto the counter. I stare at her open mouthed as Allana shoots her a warning shot.
    “ What are the flames of love?” I ask Allana knowing she’s most likely to tell me the truth, but there’s no shutting Amora up.
    “ Did you feel like you were being set a light from the inside, and the scorching flames flew to the ends of your fingers to your tippy tippy toes!” Her laughter fills the kitchen as she toys with me.
    “ And then let me guess, he looked at you, and everything was right with the world again!”
     
    “Amora stop” Allana’s voice is becoming tenser than I’ve ever witnessed.
    “ No! And now let me guess he’s touched you in some way, and now there is no pain until he’s not there and then there is a smouldering ball of fire resting in the pit of your stomach ready to erupt if you don’t get near him soon!”
     
     
     
    “Allana I want to hear the truth; so what if that is what’s happening, what do the flames mean?” And holy Hades if she’s right what is Eros going to do!
    “ You’ve been burned baby, and now he’s going to be your everything! You’re going to be so consumed by needing to be with him, you won’t be able to think straight – and Eros is going to kill you for falling in love when he finds out!”
    Satisfied with Allana ’s furious glare and my open mouthed stare Amora jumps off the counter landing like a ballerina on the tips of her toes.
    “ Ciao”
    And she ’s gone. Allana slumps as her head falls into her hands.
    “ Is she right; are these flames of love some skill we get? Can you set people alight to make them fall in love?”
    She sounds like she is to me everything fits! The searing pain, his calming effect and now I can ’t stop thinking about him.
    “ The whole thing sounds like it, but Acacia you need to stay away from him. We belong to Eros you can’t love another! And no starting the flames is not a skill any of us can possess. The flames of love are a power, which no one can control, when two halves meet the