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“As for Poseidon, you can expect ships to sink or strange water phenomena. Hurricanes, tsunamis, that sort of thing.”
“Anyone else?”
“Well, I think you can imagine that gods like Aphrodite would bring about a lot of, well…”
“Fucking,” he supplied, and the way that word just rolled off his tongue? Yeah, it was doing things to me. Things I hadn’t felt in a good, long while.
“Yes, that,” I said, reaching up toward the delicate little necklace I always wore, that had been given to me by my father when I graduated university, something that I was so used to, I never even felt it, but it suddenly seemed like it was choking me.
“What else?” he asked, and it took me a second to think past the strange surge of desire building in my system and get back to the subject at hand.
What the hell was wrong with me?
I’d been learning about the myths, and all the raunchy tales found within, since I was a little girl. I’d never been turned on thinking about them before.
Which meant the only reason I was at that moment was because of a certain disarmingly handsome man sitting close to me.
“Ah, well, I think some good things could happen, actually.”
“How so?”
“Well, you have the gods who are the more vengeful sort. But you also have gods who might show themselves by sharing their gifts with the world once again. You could see a Renaissance ofmusic and art thanks to Apollo. Or more happy domestic lives thanks to Hera and Hestia. Dionysus could bring about a lot of fun parties and overindulgence.”
“Okay. That’s good,” he said, then shook his head. “For balance. For the app story,” he said, the words strange, tight, not sounding genuine.
Or maybe I was too clouded by the strange desire in my system to think straight, clouding my judgment.
“Yeah, it’s always good to balance the doom-and-gloom with something more positive,” I agreed, taking another sip of the coffee.
There was a long pause, Bael looking off at the case of books for a long second. When he spoke, his attention was on those same books until they shifted to me.
And I swear the impact of the intensity in them made me sit up straighter in my seat.
“What about Hades?” he asked.
CHAPTER FOUR
Bael
I didn’t give a shit about what happened to the humans.
That was not something the other guys in the club would want to hear.
But I believed that was only because that after being trapped on the human plane for hundreds of years had softened them to the human race.
I still saw them for what they were at their core.
Selfish.
Rotten.
Wicked.
Evil.
That was how I’d always known them.
That was why it had been so easy to do my job down in Hell, punishing them for all of their sins.
