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

“And that’s just it, right?” Joey pushed from the table too. “Danny gets a free pass no matter what he does, because he’s your realson. You swear up and down that you were never treated differently,” he spun to face Stella, “but Danny bails and bails and bailson us, and his mind’s just elsewhere? Why does he even still live here?”


“Joey, you don’t understand—” John tried. 


“No, I don’t!” The boy whirled on Danny again, glaring with all the hatred Danny felt toward himself. “You got to have both parents until you were twice my age, and you wallow around like the only thing in the universe is you. You’re not the only person who lost a mom that night! I can’t believe Zeusand someone as selfish as you can exist in the same city.”


Chapter 78