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He sighs. “And you picked me because of my…reputation.”
My lips twist as I nod. “Yeah. Sorry. I figured if nothing else you’d know what you were doing.”
He shrugs and sighs. Neither of us says anything for a minute as we sit there on the bed, holding hands. When I glance at him, I see that his jaw is clenched tight. Then he looks away.
“I don’t do what I do because I’m this emotionally stunted sex addict that everyone seems to think I am, you know.” His jaw ticks. “I was thirteen when I lost my virginity.”
I wince. “Jesus, Hades…”
“My brother, Atlas, used to really beat on me, hard. I mean, he used to beat up on all of the brothers, but I was the only one stupid enough not to stay down, so he took a special interest in making my life hell. When I was thirteen, he decided the reason I was ‘a pussy’ and ‘a threat to his authority’ was that I hadn’t been with a girl yet.”
His face darkens, still turned away from me.
“He got me drunk, took me to a brothel, shoved me into a room with a woman twice my age, and said he wouldn’t let either of us out until we were done. Until I was ‘cured’.”
My heart breaks for him. My very soul hurts at the idea of a young Hades—Jesus, younger even than Nora—being forced to do that.
“I’m so sorry,” I say quietly. My hand squeezes his, twisting as our fingers entwine.
He just nods.
“That’s why I don’t like being fucked up or drunk when I’m being intimate. I mean, a drink or two is okay, but…”
We sit there for another minute in silence, just holding hands, allowing the openness of everything we’ve just shared with each other to settle as it will.
“For what it’s worth,” he finally says quietly, turning to me, “it wasn’t easy.”
“What wasn’t?”
“Resisting you in the car tonight.”
Heat blooms across my face and down my chest under the robe—which, I’m suddenly hyper aware, is the only thing I’m wearing.
In a bed.
With Hades.
I swallow as I turn to glance up at him. “Because I was drunk…?”
He nods, his jaw clenched tight and his eyes smoldering with ice-blue flame, as if he can barely restrain himself from touching me or doing so much more than that.
“I… I’m not drunk anymore—”
My words melt away to a whimper as he turns, grabs my face, and crushes his mouth to mine. His tongue pushes past my lips, tangling with mine as I moan into his lips and slide onto his lap.
The comically small t-shirt he’s wearing is on my floor in a split second. And I’m shuddering and moaning as he pushes the robe off my shoulders. His fierce gaze slides over me slowly, drinking in every naked detail of me in the low light of the bedroom. I gasp as his mouth drops to my breasts, his teeth grazing over a nipple before he bites down.
Fuck.
I cry out, my back arching as he ruthlessly bites and sucks first one nipple and then the other, turning my core molten as I grind against the thick, hard bulge in his boxers. Hades growls, pushing me back as if to pin me to the bed. But suddenly, I’m shoving him back against the headboard, turning the tables on him as I shake my head.
“Uh-uh.”
I kiss him deeply. Then, pulling away, I let my mouth trail first down his jaw, then his neck, relishing the way his muscles tense and coil under the touch of my lips. I move lower and lower, down over his abs, then even lower still.
“What exactly do you think you’re doing, kitten?”
I blush as my eyes drag up to his, my fingers slipping into the waist of his boxers. “Finishing what I started earlier.”
