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"I understand now," I murmured, bringing a hand to her jaw and tilting her head back, resting my forehead on hers. "Why you couldn't stay in the safe house and wait for the next mercenary to find us. I didn't understand back then, maybe I was more mentally stable a hundred years ago, I don't know."
I expected her to laugh at my sad attempt at a joke, but she just tilted her face forward and kissed me, full of emotion.
Fuck. I swallowed a sudden lump in my throat.
"So what do you want to do, Em?" she asked quietly.
"I don't know what I want," I replied, thick with rage and tears. "But I think what I need is a way to shield us from him. For good."
She drew back a few inches and raised an eyebrow. I was very familiar with that slow arch of judgement.
"What?" I asked, my mouth flickering into a smile.
"That's not what you need, Em. That's what the guys need."
"What I need is to fuck you in every position imaginable," I muttered.
"That can be arranged," she replied with a smile. "But cut the shit, Emlyn Johahn. Tell me."
"I need to watch him die, Hales. I want to see his body explode the way you've killed so many threats to us. I want your magic to cut into every single part of him, and I want you to rip him apart until the whole goddamn world is covered in his blood."
Haley kissed me—slowly, calming the thunderous beat of my heart with every glide of her tongue, every soft press of lips on mine.
"I did try," she said quietly. "It didn't work. But if I ever get another chance—"
I shook my head. "We threw everything at him and none of it worked. We need something new."
A dark gleam flashed in her eyes. "You really mean it. You want us to kill him."
"Before he kills us," I agreed, kissing her, stroking my thumb over her jaw. "It's him or us, Hales. Right now, he doesn't have proof you're alive. But how long until he comes for you? I think you were just another descendant to him before, but now? You fought him—and survived. He's going to take that personally."
"I know," she agreed, chewing her lip. "To summarise, we need new, better shields, a way to really, truly kill Cronus, and an uninterrupted afternoon for you to fuck me senseless. Did I forget anything?"
"That's most of it," I murmured, sliding my hand from her hip to her ass, helping myself to a squeeze of softness and muscle.
"Most?" Her brow furrowed, the expression cute as fuck.
I kissed her cheek, my lips brushing a new scar acquired in Olympus. "We need to find your friend and get her to safety. You'll never live with yourself if we don't. And neither will I."
I wasn't prepared for the force of her kiss, or for her fingers to tighten in my hair, ripping out a few strands.1 I sighed, melting into her, and slid my hands under her ass to pull her up against me. Teeth caught my bottom lip, dragging a growl from me. It turned into a groan when she wrapped her legs around my hips, wiggling over my cock. I was rock hard the second her pussy settled over me, as hot as a furnace even through our clothes.
I was one second away from exploring one of those many positions we'd spoken about when the room plunged into sudden darkness.
Haley squeaked, pulling me closer and pressing herself against my chest in the same movement.
"Probably just a power cut," I murmured, kissing her cheek.
But when we went downstairs and found the rest of our family, it didn't take longer than two seconds to realise it wasn't a power cut. The lights were still on; the TV was still playing. We just couldn't see them because complete darkness had blanketed the whole house.
CHAPTER 18
HALWEN
"Don't make me regret this," Wynvail muttered, unlocking the shields on his secret armoury and giving the guys—Kai and Verena especially—a warning look. "Don't steal anything, don't touch anything unless you want your dick to shrivel or for you to shift into an armour plated hedgehog."
"Why would you have something that does that anyway?" I asked, giving him a strange look as he led us inside the narrow room.
"Reasons," Wynvail replied, giving me a look that told me he was remembering the last time we were here, and what that led to.
