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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 you, Penny. Longed for you.”
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 you leave my side again. If someone takes you, 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.”
My eyebrows leap up. “Your mother is alive?”
He nods, squinting off toward the window. “Aye. At least, she was. I had a private investigator look into her life about ten years ago. I never pushed to know more cause… ye know, why would I? But I think that now, with everything…”
I grab his hand, pulling it to my heart.
“I would love to visit your mom.”
Hades holds up a hand. “Easy, now. I’m only suggesting it because it’s someplace that I’ve told my brothers that I never want to go. As far as actually seeing Ma…” He trails off and then shrugs. “Let’s just make sure that we’re somewhere hidden first.”
And then, Hades will have to deal with the fact that he’s about to share a world where his baby girl will live.
My lips twitch. “Okay. One thing at a time.”
The loud growl of my stomach interrupts us. Hades pulls a face but then scoots away, helping me up. “Come on. Let’s feed you.”
