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My fingers dig into his shoulders. I move until I am all but in his lap, breathing hard, my pussy damp as it was the first time we fucked.
Hades drives a hand through my hair and holds me apart from his mouth for just a second. “I am sorry, Persephone. If I hadn’t kidnapped ye, forced ye to fit in my world, we wouldn’t be in this mess.”
“Hades.” I take a deep breath in. “It wasn’t your decision. Ares felt that I was just too much of a distraction from your lives and your business.”
“Fuck our business. And… well, I look back on the time before I met ye and think… what life did I have to miss?”
I swallow, blushing at the same time as tears well up.
“For months, I’ve dreamt that you would say just those words to me.”
He kisses my lips passionately. When he pulls back, he says, “I need ye by my side, Persephone.”
I bite my lip. “I want to punish Ares for keeping us apart.”
“Aye. I will mete out justice to him. I swear to you.”
After looking at him for a long moment, I wipe at my overflowing eyes and nod.
“All right. I’ll leave it with you,” I whisper.
He wraps his arms around me, kissing me again.
“I’ve needed ye, Penny. Longed for ye.”
Intensity blooms in my chest as I scan his face, breathing hard. “I missed you, too, Hades. There aren’t really words for how often I dreamt of escaping or of you finding me.”
His gaze is steady on mine. “I will never let ye leave my side again. If someone takes ye, I will be dead.”
I flinch. “Don’t say that.”
Hades pushes my hair back, shaping my face. “I mean it.”
I don’t know what to say, so I catch his fingers, bringing them to my lips for a soft kiss. He glances down at my stomach for just a second before glancing away again guiltily.
“We need to retreat. I need time to think, to plan my next move. This… this child was not something I had even thought possible.”
I cock my head. “Oh?”
The last part of his question was the bit that I responded to. What had he thought was possible, then?
But Hades just gets a faraway look in his eye. “We’ll have to go somewhere we won’t be followed. Not even by my brothers. Which puts Scotland out of the question.”
I lean back, placing a hand on my belly.
“Where are you thinking of?”
He takes a deep breath and pushes it out.
“We have to go to the last place that my brothers would think of to look for me. A place that I have never been.”
“So…” I squint. “New Zealand?”
“Nae.” Hades shakes his head. “I am thinking of a place much closer than that… but also much colder. Somewhere that no one will think to look.”
I make a puzzled gesture. “Where?”
“My mother is somewhere in Scandinavia. And I think we should shelter near there, too. Just until I know what our next move will be.”
