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Without saying a word, I bend at the knees and reach down. Leo’s face scrunches up in confusion as my hand slips up under the hem of my dress. With a wince, I peel the cream-colored lace panties away from my still-tender parts and pull them down my legs. Then I slip them over my heels, and dangle them from one fingertip, smiling.
Then, before I can lose my nerve, I toss them right onto Leo’s desk.
His eyes drop and his face twists when he spots the dark red stain on them.
“What thefuck?!” he sputters, standing abruptly and backing away, as if I’ve just tossed a bomb, or anthrax, on his desk. His eyes drag up to mine, revulsion on his face. “What is this!? Are you on your fucking period or—”
“No, Leo, I’m not.”
He frowns. Then blinks.
And slowly, it hits him.
The color rushes into his face, suffusing it with deep a purply-red as his lips curl viciously.
“No.”
I just smile. “Oops. So much for the purity pledge for poor widdle Melik and his fragile male ego.”
Leo’s face contorts with rage, his eyes tightening to slits.
“You. Fucking.Cunt—”
“You donotget to talk to me like that,” I snap. “Actually, you don’t get to talk to me at all.” I shake my head, keeping my head high as I glare right into his face. “This isover. Don’t ever come near me again.”
Then, with a show of cool confidence I don’t feel in the slightest, I turn and stride out of the room, my chin up and shoulders straight.
I keep up the façade until I get outside. Then the air rushes out of my lungs with a wrenching sound as I look up and shove my fingers through my hair.
It’s done.
It’s over.
The Uber I ordered on my way back down through the restaurant pulls up to the curb. Grinning, I hop in. And then we’re off into the night.
* * *
Nora’sfast asleep on the couch when I get home. Netflix still thinks she’s bingingThe Witcher, so I quietly turn off a shirtless, monster-slaying Henry Cavill, cover my sister with a blanket, make sure the blinds are drawn so the first light won’t wake her, and leave her to sleep.
There’s almost a twinge of regret when I shower—as if I think that washing his scent, his touch, and his…well,other thingsoff me will erase the memory. But I needn’t have worried. After I crawl into bed and snuggle under the covers, it’s the only thing I can think about.
Part of me feels a little guilty for using him. But notthatguilty. This is Hades we’re talking about, after all. To him, I’m sure I was just one more random girl on one more random night. It’s a thought that sits sourly in my brain much more than it should. But I shove the sourness down.
It is what it is. And I have zero regrets.
No one ever has to know.
He can be my own secret sin.
My dirty little secret.
And it’s with endless replays of all the ways he made me explode rushing through my head, like a powerful drug, that I slowly sink to sleep.
6
HADES
My first planafter leaving Leo’s restaurant involves going directly to Elsa’s office, breaking in, and figuring outexactlyhow hard she’s fucking my family, since she’s clearly working for Leo.
