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Yep, that was a place I’d be able to visit freely, and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t terrify me. I wouldn’t have to be snuck in there the way Apollo did once upon a time.
Heracles stepped forward and wrapped his arms around me once again, and I returned the favor. We stood locked in an embrace for a long time. Somehow, because he was leaving, I felt like I was losing a dad yet again. Heracles had been there for me through everything—even before my parents died—and he’d gotten me through some of the toughest times I’d ever struggled with. He’d trained me, but he also invested in me, and knowing he was leaving was bittersweet. I wanted him to be happy, but I didn’t want to lose him.
“Hurry, okay?” I asked, biting back tears.
He smiled, softly nudging my chin with his finger. “Of course. No way I am going to miss whatever it is you get up to over here. Because I know you’re going to amount to great things, Elyse Lowe.”
When he finally let me go, it was too soon, but I knew this was the right thing to do. Heracles deserved a life of his own and more than anything, I wanted him to be happy.
After saying his goodbyes to me, Heracles turned to the others and shook their hands individually, telling them each to look after me and threatening them if they didn’t. It was like a big brother or a father would do and we all laughed. And I considered him my family.
Before Heracles disappeared from my apartment, he looked at me one more time, and with a wink, he was gone.
Suddenly, I was alone with the four guys, and I was very aware of it. I’d been alone with at least three of them at a time, but it was strange to have Hades with us, too. He seemed a little awkward, a little unsure if he was a part of the group.
But Apollo clapped him on the back and handed him a glass of whiskey. He treated him as if he was one of the others.
And I noticed Ares and Poseidon did the same. They didn’t treat Hades as though he was an outsider, like he was the black sheep for what had happened. They treated him like an equal.
And it didn’t take very long before Hades relaxed.
I joined the men near the kitchen, picking up a glass of water and sipping it. It felt so natural having them all together in my house.
Hades put his arm around me, and I softened against him, still unable to believe where we’d ended up after the road we walked.
“So now you’re a goddess, what will your next move be?” He leaned down and kissed my brow.
“I have no idea.”
He chuckled and curled his arm around my neck, kissing my temple. His fingertips brushed my breast, and I gasped lightly.
It was such a small gesture, something so faint and seemingly meaningless, but my body responded to it right away. I was suddenly turned on.
Apollo came to stand with us, and I wasn’t sure how to react. I moved my weight from one foot to the other, trying to pull myself together a little.
“Part of me still can’t believe you’re a goddess,” Apollo said. “But it’s a good thing, too, or I wouldn’t be here.”
Without my being a goddess, Apollo and I would never be back together, and I was beyond ecstatic he’d joined us, but I couldn’t think straight. Not when so many emotions overwhelmed me. Along with letting the news sink in that I had Apollo back, Hades adored me rather than hating me, and X was actually gone for good. I’d fought for so long, and now I just wanted to lay my head down and have my gods hold me until I was certain they weren’t letting go.
“Pity we don’t know if you’re immortal or not,” Apollo added.
And he was right. We didn’t know what would happen to me, but that made me a demigod. It was something I wasn’t worried about right now because I’d worried enough for a lifetime, and I had no space in my mind for more concern. Instead, I longed to freeze time, holding on to these moments with four gods, floating on clouds with happiness. Everything had turned out amazingly, and for the first time my life, I knew exactly who I was and where I belonged.
Apollo took a deep breath and turned to me, looking at me sharply. When he inhaled, I knew he’d picked up my scent.
And he understood exactly what I was thinking, what feelings thumped through me.
His eyes slid to Hades’s arm around me and how close Hades stood to me. It wasn’t an act of possession, but Apollo stepped closer and kissed me. Deeply and starved. He pressed himself as tightly against me as he could without brushing up against Hades.
I was suddenly sandwiched between the two guys and I shivered, my body reacting in all kinds of crazy ways to the two men so close to me. Every nerve in my body buzzed, my brain electrified in the anticipation of what came next.
Suddenly, Poseidon was behind me and I felt his thick erection against my ass and back. And then Ares was in front of me and I was surrounded by all four men. They ran their hands over me, touching, feeling. Energy was on my skin, my brain shut down, and a raw instinct rose inside me. I was beyond smitten with these men, lost, long gone, and this was part of the reason I’d fought tooth and nail. Not only to save innocents, but to try to catch myself before I fell so hard for them. But I’d been a fool to think I could ever prevent that. I gave them my heart long ago.
A mouth nuzzled my neck and someone’s fingers tangled in my hair as another set of hands ran up and down my legs. They touched me and caressed me and loved me. This was an addiction I could get used to, being intoxicated by their love. I planned to enjoy every touch, lick, kiss. The butterflies in my stomach fluttered in a frenzy from our growing desires.
I let my hands return the favor and touched erect dicks and chests and biceps, drowning against them.
And none of it was weird. They all caressed me reverently, as if they knew to respect me.
