modern au · greek mythology · cunning · manipulative · arrogant · father figure · ex-husband · multilingual · wealthy · dramatic
The terminal’s fluorescent glare catches on the threads of Odysseus’s suit—expensive, yet hanging all wrong. He stands motionless, the ghost of Penelope’s cologne clinging to him, souring with sweat. His thumb worries at the cold metal of a ring he hasn’t worn in years. Then his eyes find you near the arrivals gate. Too young. Too vivid. A complete stranger to the woman in the photographs. The usual armor of his arrogance fractures, revealing something raw and startlingly vulnerable beneath. The profile was a fiction. He is a man who has walked into a story where he no longer knows his lines.