Heroes aren't meant to act like their villains -- or fall in love with them. The elements touch everyone on Earth -- Fire, Water, even Light -- but every so often someone becomes more attuned to their elemental leaning and develops true power. When an evil Elemental known as Thanatos arrived in Olympus City, it saw the rise of its first hero -- Zeus. But the death toll caused by defeating Thanatos changed Zeus, who by day is young detective Danny Grant. It's been six months since Thanatos terrorized the city at the start of Lovesick Gods. Danny should be used to his duty behind the mask, but the recent past haunts him. His girlfriend left him, he snaps at the barest provocation, his life feels empty -- he needs an outlet, any outlet to pull him out of his depression. Enter notorious thief Malcolm Cho, the Ice Elemental Prometheus. There was a time when Danny welcomed a fight with Cho, filled with colorful banter and casual flirtations that were a relief compared to Thanatos. Even as a criminal, Cho had recognized the threat Thanatos posed and promised to help Danny stop him, but the day Danny needed Cho, he never showed. Cho was the reason so many people died that day -- including Danny's mother. Danny decides to teach the man a lesson and fan the fire of their attraction into something more. At worst, he'll get some no-strings-attached sex out of the deal and finally blow off steam; at best, he'll get Cho to fall in love with him and then break his heart to spite him. Danny doesn't expect to fall for Cho in the process, and he certainly can't predict the much darker threat on the horizon.

Lovesick Gods

The two of them had been with him since the beginning. Danny thought Cho would be here tonight too, but now he knew his nemesis wasn’t coming. 


Summoning his lightning, he felt it spark from the coil in his gut and spread outward like a shockwave. His white and yellow suit lit up the dark of the night, electricity arching further from his body, higher, stronger. Danny was going to hit Thanatos with everything he had. 


“That’s what makes you so pathetic, Zeus. You think Death will wait for you,” Thanatos said with a subtle flick of his wrist.


The explosion was quieter than Danny expected. Contained inside the building by Thanatos’s shadows, it was muffled, the way movies sometimes show an explosion in space. But the eruption still came—beforeDanny surged his lightning forward.


Chapter 70