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  Loved By a God

  Book 4

  Plutus

  By Crystal Dawn

  2015 Copyright by Crystal Dawn

  Cover by Eagle Eye Covers

  Editing by Eagle Editing

  Any resemblance to any person living or dead is simply a coincidence and all characters are the product of the author’s imagination.

  Dedicated to twins both identical and fraternal and the strong bonds that they feel.

  Frozen Origin

  Book 1

  Zeus

  Origin is the best in the field of DNA research and they have finely tuned their craft. They started out with a line of supermen pulling all the best traits from the millions of human DNA samples they had available to them. These supermen were the smartest, fastest, strongest, and most adaptable the human race had to offer, but Origin wasn’t satisfied. When they expanded their facility in Antarctica, they discovered something that made the next level reachable. These were the gods, so far beyond the abilities of man that even with some of their gifts still undiscovered, they put the supermen to shame.

  Origin managed to get by with enslaving the products of their research for years until they rented the talents of those products to terrorists that used them against the US and her allies. A team was sent to free them and they were allowed to be an independent entity, free to rule themselves. They had much to overcome and Origin wasn’t ready to give them up yet. Origin fought hard to recover their losses, but the gods fought harder to remain free especially once they realized that they could have a mate and children when they find the right woman.

  Sierra, one of the team sent in to free them, and Zeus, the leader of the gods, are the first to mate and have children.

  Frozen Origin

  Book 2

  Hermes

  Hermes is captured by rogue Origin agents and meets his future mate under the worst possible conditions. He had hoped to mate a fierce warrior like Zeus did, but is drawn to the timid mousy girl despite his wishes to the contrary. When she helps him escape, he begins to discover she isn’t anything like he thought her to be.

  Origin continues to try to bring the gods back under their control and rogue agents with their own plans are added to the mix. The gods deal with the US military, spies in their midst, and are offered another captured Origin lab to use for their own needs. Zeus offers this to the demons but Lu wants to think about it.

  Several of the other gods suspect they’ve found their mates but they aren’t sure yet. Some of them wonder if they’ll ever be truly free of Origin and if they’ll ever have the things that other people take for granted.

  Frozen Origin

  Book 3

  Hades

  In Hades, more gods are freed and brought home. A new trend is developing with Origin. They are farming gods out singly to small groups and individuals making it harder to track them. Hades and Doc search for a god that was verified in the possession of an unidentified party. Their mission was largely unsuccessful and they returned to Olympus without the god they had searched for. Was he still alive? They believed he was but the search would have to start all over from scratch. They refused to give up until he was free or confirmed dead.

  Frozen Origin Quickies

  Book 1

  Morpheus

  Farmed out to a particularly loathsome female researcher, Morpheus only wants to die so he can be free from the pain and the desire of the vindictive female who tortures him when he refuses to service him. Eventually his fellow gods find him but there are so many more out there in situations similar or even worse than his.

  Book 2

  Aeolus

  Aeolus is near death when his captors hire a new nurse. Ange is different and from the others and pulls him back from the brink of death. She also reports his condition to the lost god’s hotline.

  That's one hot god she's nursing and she tries to help him. Problem is, she gets taken and can't get away. Will he be able to save her or will she just become another victim of Origin?

  Note: For adult readers only due to explicit language and graphic sex.

  Loved by a God

  Book 3

  Tycho and Plutus are part of a mission to save the god Jason. The pregnant female and her daughter also need saving. Is it possible that she, the mother, belongs to a god and the baby she carries is one of them? Tycho isn’t sure but he feels a bond drawing him to the mother, daughter, and the baby in her belly. Even as they save the small family, they must send his brother Plutus after her sister who is about to blunder into Origin’s reach unknowing of what is going on.

  Plutus

  Prologue

  They were twins and everyone knew it. No one knew who was the oldest, but Plutus had always suspected it was him. He was the grounded and reasonable one. He knew they looked alike, the main difference was their eyes, but if it pleased Tycho to pretend otherwise, it was easy enough to go along with it. That’s what big brothers did, they protected and sometimes indulged their little brothers. Tycho would spit fire if he knew that is what Plutus really thought.

  Plutus always took the lead except when Tycho blundered in like a bull in a china shop and then Plutus rushed in to save the day and his baby brother. That’s what he was doing now, rushing in to save Tycho’s mate’s sister. He wouldn’t fail, because he was his big brother and he would always look out for him. Plutus had the rest of the team to help, but the Origin goons probably expected them. It was hard to surprise someone who knew you were coming, but Plutus was smarter than them and his team was better than theirs. He wouldn’t leave until he had Ritzy in his arms, he meant in his custody. Damn, he was getting a little overly enthused. The young god just wanted to save her to get her to her sister. That was all.

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  Plutus

  Chapter 1

  Saving the Day

  They had saved Tycho’s mate, Mitzy and that was great, but the job wasn’t finished although it might have ended there. The problem was her sister, her twin, was on her way to Mitzy’s house and Mitzy would not feel calm until Ritzy was with her. Since Mitzy was pregnant with Tycho’s child, everyone at Olympus wanted her to be calm and happy. Gods loved and honored mates and children above all other things. So here Plutus was, with a team he was in charge of for the first time, with the purpose of bringing Ritzy safely to her twin’s side. Since he and Tycho were also twins, he could understand her need to see her sister safe and he would do everything in his power to accomplish that.

  “Plutus. You will be in charge of this mission.” Hades had directed. It was just as if it had happened this morning. Oh, yeah, it had. Right before they left actually.

  “Thank you. I will do my best to bring her back as quickly as possible. Hopefully she will be at Mitzy’s house waiting for us.” Plutus was tempted to pray to the gods, but what had they ever granted when he asked for it? His freedom had come much later in life even though he’d begged for it daily.

  Hades laughed, the sound hollow and without humor. “How you hang on to that glass half full outlook of yours, I’ll never understand. Hope for the best, young one, but prepare for the worst. Often life deals us the worst.” Hades strode off leaving Plutus with nothing but a list of those forming his team and a plane, if he chose to generously call it that, preparing to take them back to the place they had just escaped from.

  The team assembled without any directions from him since Hades had already notified them of the mission. Their equipment, any that wasn’t personal to one g
od or another, was also loaded already by the same gods that saw to it for every mission. So far Plutus had done nothing that he had expected a mission leader to do. Maybe that would start on the flight. To be honest, Plutus hadn’t been on many missions and this was the first one he’d been in charge of. He could only assume that Hades thought they wouldn’t have any trouble. That was what Plutus hoped for too.

  It was weird coming back to this place on the small rented plane. He’d never been on any plane, except the one the gods owned and a helicopter or two. None of those had been available so they had to use what they could. Cherish, the mate of Hermes, had found this ancient plane that was hauling equipment from some scientific expedition near Olympus back to Washington. There had barely been enough room to hold the equipment and them in the old army troop carrier that had been repurposed to use as a rental for whatever purpose it was needed.

  It was a tight fit with the other guys, but no one was complaining. They’d stay at Mitzy’s house which would work out okay, even if they would have to draw lots for who got the couch. Hopefully, she would get there soon and they would be on their way back just as fast. He knew he was dreaming to hope that everything would work so well, especially when they used up all their luck on the first part of the mission. Origin would be unhappy and even with the government now in place investigating the clinic, Origin would have a presence, albeit a hidden one. They had shown their ability to reuse places over and over even when they had been reported to the local government. Origin tended to just move next door to observe the goings on from a distance. Plutus moved in an attempt to stretch and hit Adonis with his elbow.

  “Sorry, Dude,” he muttered. He hated this tin can they were on.

  “S’okay,” he said groggily caught between sleep and awareness. They were all trying to sleep on the way there. At least the trip would be faster and it would cut out some of the misery.

  Plutus wished he could sleep, but his mind was a whirl of thoughts and fears. At least Tycho had his mate and he would now have a niece or two or a nephew. He couldn’t resist entertaining the thought that Ritzy could be his. How sweet would that be? They were young to already have found their mates, but he had no doubt that Tycho had found his, so why not him too? She’d be mild mannered and sweet like Mitzy and he wouldn’t deny he had found Mitzy attractive. More so than any female he’d yet seen, so maybe that meant something. Just thinking of Ritzy made heat wash through him. That needed to stop because this was not the place to get horny.

  They were getting close to their stop and it couldn’t be soon enough. He now knew the meaning of the saying, crammed in like sardines. The smell in there wasn’t all that good either. It was cold in the back of the old plane, but not cold enough to cancel out all the smells. Some of the scents were offensive to the sensitive nose gods had while others would offend anyone.

  They’d have to find a bigger plane for the way back with Ritzy also included. A lady shouldn’t be subjected to this for hours like they had been. He wouldn’t worry about it, because that would be Cherish’s job and she was adept at it. He was grateful when he realized the plane was circling in preparation to landing. Plutus thought about kissing the ground when they landed, but his brothers would never let him live it down.

  The plane finally landed and Plutus could see he wasn’t the only one who hurried to get off. A SUV waited for them and Zelus and Adonis raced to see who would drive. Dione was senior of the group, but he was laid back and happy most of the time, so he wouldn’t fight for the right to drive. Plutus had actually been put in charge of the mission, a fact that still had him flabbergasted, but he ranked the lowest of the group and wasn’t willing to take the flack Adonis or Zelus would give him on the next mission if he insisted on driving. That left the two of them, they were nearly equal in rank, to duke it out one way or the other. Dione and he exchanged a look and a smile. Zelus and Adonis would be fighting to one up each other the whole mission. It might even get entertaining.

  They would be like two alpha dogs fighting for superiority. All gods were alphas, even laid back Dione, but there were different levels and the situation brought out more, or less cause to compete. Right now he and Dione had no cause, while Zelus and Adonis were too close in rank not to try to beat the other one out. Zelus beat Adonis to the driver’s seat, but he didn’t have the strength to hold the seat. He wasn’t fast enough to close the door, so Adonis grabbed him and threw him out. Zelus was faster and Adonis was stronger. The competition would keep the trip interesting, but they better not let it interfere with their task. That would be the quickest way for the two of them to bring out the aggression in him.

  Adonis was a good driver and they made good time. He went above the speed limit, but not so much that they got unwanted attention from any policemen they saw. The god remembered the route they had driven earlier and unfailing followed it to Mitzy’s house. It looked mostly like it was when they had left it except for a closed suitcase lying abandoned on the porch. That looked like someone had just set it there and walked off. Plutus immediately had a bad feeling that grew worse as he approached the porch. He wasn’t even to the suitcase yet when he could see Ritzy bedazzled on the top of the pink case. He’d expected a utilitarian case from a former soldier, but Ritzy must be in touch with her feminine side.

  He pulled out the key to the house determined to make sure she hadn’t just dumped the case on the porch in favor of going inside to see why no one greeted her. It was too much to ask that the simplest explanation would be the right one this time. The young god went inside, followed by the others, except Adonis who checked out the yard to see if there were any indications of what had happened.

  Plutus felt the dread in his stomach climb higher with each empty room he searched. He headed upstairs wishing with all that he was, that he could find her there possibly sleeping off the long flight and the time change. Wishing got him what it always did, not one damn thing. The house was empty, devoid of any human inhabitant. The god went back downstairs to see what Adonis had found, if anything. One thing was already painfully clear, she’d been here and now she was gone and Plutus believed it was by foul means.

  As he stepped off the last step, Dione shook his head. He looked at Zelus, another shake of the head. A moment later, Adonis came in with a grim look on his face. “I found signs of a struggle and blood. My guess is she didn’t have her key and she planned to jimmy the kitchen window. It looks like it’s been done many times before. They must have jumped her and she put up quite a struggle against at least two big men, possibly three. The footprints are too smudged to be sure. Looks like they carried her off, probably to a van or similar vehicle. She could be anywhere,” he concluded.

  “Anywhere, but the clinic. We’ll have to check it out anyway, but the feds should have it locked down,” Plutus observed. Maybe they would get lucky. Origin had a tendency to go back to places time and time again. When they did, it made things easier for the gods to track them.

  “I wouldn’t count on it. Sometimes those Origin pricks are high up in the government. It is how they got by with what they did for so long,” Zelus offered. Zelus was right. In a little town like this it would be easy to enact a cover up.

  It was true that Origin infiltrated the government and many large corporations, siphoning off money and using other resources, while they covered their tracks by hiding evidence and misdirecting others through false clues. Had they been as stupid as they were cruel, they would have been shut down long ago. Their moles in law enforcement were what kept them one step ahead, even now after they’d been exposed. It was a pity the way they worked the system and corrupted people that once worked for the good of others.

  “Someone needs to stay here in case she escapes and comes back. Any volunteers?” Plutus asked. He knew he sure as hell wasn’t staying.

  “I’ll stay this time, but if we’re here a while, everyone needs to take a turn,” Dione agreed.

  “Okay, thanks Dione. Let’s go down near the clinic and we can
walk past it to the diner. We’ll bring the food back here, while we get a plan together,” Plutus instructed.

  They loaded into the SUV and drove a couple blocks before parking it. They all got out and Adonis walked ahead of them. He would circle around getting more information while Zelus and Plutus ambled by, walking slowly to the diner, and seeing what they could see from the outside. They had enough information to hack the security and they would, once they got back to Mitzy’s house. Dione would have everything set up by then. They all had the basic skills needed on a mission like this for the most common security systems. Any one of them could do it and that had turned out to be a good thing many times in the past. Gods were like Boy scouts in that way, always prepared.

  They fell back far enough that they could barely see Adonis as he turned the corner. There seemed to be no activity on the outside of the building at all. He would have expected someone to be there and what Zelus had said about government corruption hit a sour note. It looked like he might be right. They went on to the diner where Adonis joined them reporting no activity anywhere near the clinic. It was like it had never been reported as having been run by Origin, a company that was on the terrorist organization list in the US and at least a dozen other countries.

  The gods had a drink while they waited for their order to be finished and grabbed it, paying and hurrying out. They had already drawn attention in the diner from everyone in there. Guys sent them nasty looks while women drooled. A few brave females approached them offering to show them around town. Of course, they politely declined. Some females hurried away, while others huffed off, not taking the rejection well.

  The team needed to get to work, because he didn’t like thinking about what they were doing to Ritzy while she was at their mercy. It might be because he knew most of Origin’s employees had no mercy. The time he and the other gods had spent in their care proved that. They might try to trade her for the baby, but they had to realize few mothers would do that. The only other thing she could be useful to them as was a breeder. He didn’t want to give them the time to violate her, but they’d already had that, if they were set up for artificial insemination. Just the thought made a blind fury roll over him. Plutus knew he had to stay in control so he drew in a deep breath.