Chapter 51

The sunshine is warm in its brightness, reflecting a glow from the ends of Lissana's eyelashes, deep brown though they may be. It invites her eyes to rest, so that she can see bright rays even when she seems to be asleep. It's the sunlight that comes out of the year, lighting summer meadows and alpine slopes all the same. She wishes there was a word for the feeling it brings, for now she is calling it 'sun joy." Lissana spreads out her arms and wrapped around her body with white sheets, realizing that Hades was nowhere to be seen.



'He wakes up early," she muttered under her breath and slowly stands from the bed and walks near the glass window.



The mansion was beautiful and Lissana can't help but be impressed even though she had seen the complete surrounding.



The bright sunshine brought the people infinite hues of green, the palate of nature an abundance without frontier, each complimenting the other, more beautiful together than alone. It felt as if the light flowed, the energy within as the water in a river, kissing creation alive. Under the sunshine they kissed every hue into brilliance, an art there for the seeing, for the willingness to pause and be with it at the moment. It brought every rose-hue from the bricks, every green nature given, every tone of water and fire from petals grown over eons. It made me shine too, the warmth around feeling as love within.



'Love," she breathes and touches her lips. They had made love again, they kiss, and they did it again. But this time she told him she loves him, they exchange I love you's to each other and she can't help herself not to go worry.



‘Everything and everyone shows me that all will be okay, but I'm anxious. It comes as an electrical storm in my brain that, honestly, is painful. It's different from a headache and it feels the same as intense sorrow, perhaps as a frozen panic with nowhere to go. Here I am again doing this panic thing, every time I think of this relationship we have anxiety attacks on me. I am his step-daughter and he is my step-father, yet we have a forbidden relationship. This relationship we have will come to an end and I know that. I do not want us to be separated, I don't know what to do if that happens,' Lissana thought as she closes her eyes and inhaled some fresh air. The more anxious she became, the more pronounced became her intellectualize of the complete process.



'Who made you afraid, my love? Afraid of the future and the past? For neither exists in any place but the imagination, even memory must be imagined. Thus fear is a kind of madness, but one that is useful if you know how it works. Fear will take you by the hand to the things you keep and guard as precious. Always face fear with courage, understand it, and then let it go. Let these fears wake you up, let them show you the way to your true self, to the brave soul whose love shines like a star. For without fear, love is brighter, stronger, deeper. When you find yourself, my love, you will be your own master, fully healed, and your last fear will be of your own strength," a husky, strong voice whispered and immediately Lissana opens her eyes and held her hand in her chest, there was no one in the room, only her. She roamed her eyes thinking it would just be Hades, but the voice was different. She thought of his assistant, Michael, but why would he do it? He seems that he can't do this thing. And the voice was also different from him. A voice that too familiar for her which makes



'Who are you?" she whispered in the air, obviously afraid of what was going on.



'Time takes its own time my dear, everything will come to downfall and you will enlighten so do not worry my child," a voice answered and Lissana can't help herself she held her hands in her mouth, her lips were trembling and her eyes were about to cry, is she dreaming? Is that the voice of her father?



'Papa?" she whispered and sobs softly.



'Fear is part of being human, Lissana, it's the precursor to bravery. We need it, it wakes us up to what needs to be done. So feel it, own it, let it ignite your thoughts," the voice answered.



Lissana was about to answer but her lips won't move to speak and without a second she found herself full of sweat on her forehead and realize she was sobbing in her sleep.



'A dream," she breathes and slowly takes a seat near at the headboard and leaned. She looked outside and realize it was raining again. It was definitively a dream. She heard the gentle tapping of raindrops against the bedroom window. She gets up and rub her knuckles into her eyes. The between of her legs were still sore because of the night that they had shared. She still not getting used of being in his arms, every time that their eyes meets, she feels intimidated by him. She loves him. She had a lot of apprehension in her skin, but as what she had dreamed she must not be afraid.



She wrapped herself with the sheets and walk near the closet to find clothes for her to wear. She wears a white long sleeve polo, for it seems comfortable for her to wear it.





'This is comfy," she looks at herself in the mirror and gasp in surprise as someone speaks behind the closet.





'Hades, you frightened me," she said and a playful smile crossed in his lips.





'Sorry dear but I was just enjoying seeing you being naked and dressing yourself with my clothes it suits you better," he stated and there was sparkling in lust in his eyes, those eyes that Lissana can't resist.





'Hades," she rolled her eyes and act as if it didn't affect her his appearance but his scent was not helping either.





'Pack your things as long as it is necessary for you to have with, we will go somewhere," he said and put a small kiss on her forehead which makes her go blush.





'W-where are we going," she hated herself for stammering.





'It's a surprise now go," he chuckled and spank her ass which makes Lissana gasp in surprise and now she was all red.