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He urged her lips apart, his tongue gliding against hers, his teeth grazing her lips. She tasted like wine and salt, and smelled like a bed of sweet roses. Her body trembled, and he held her tighter so that there was no space between them, feeling all her soft curves against the hard contours of his own body. She was just as enthusiastic, kissing him with unabashed abandon. He got the sense that she would not have appreciated gentle, that she craved passion, rough and raw.
Her arms wound around his neck, and he groaned, the sound coming from somewhere deep and long asleep. He moved, directing her until she was pressed into the stone. His hands drifted down her waist and over her round bottom, where he gripped and lifted her from the ground. With her legs planted around his waist, her heels digging into his back, his erection grinding into her most sensitive place, he let his lips wander, trailing her jaw, nipping her ear, kissing down her neck. Now and then he would pause and taste her skin, salty from the river. She arched beneath him, gasping until she took control, driving her hands through his hair, loosening the strands until it fell in layers around his face. It was his hair she used to control him, because as his hands slipped beneath her robe, grazing the hot and tender skin between her thighs, she gripped it harder, and it was that sharp pull that brought him back to reality.
He had gone too far. He broke their kiss, breathing hard, struggling to contain his lust. He had meant to tease her to gauge her desire, but it had turned into something more. Even now he continued to hold her, fighting the urge to begin where they ended. All he had to do was shift his hand ever so slightly, part her damp flesh with his fingers, and he would be inside her.
But this was not how it should be. She had no reason to trust him with her body, no reason to trust him at all. He would not let her regret their time together, and when he made love to her, it would not be against a garden wall.
That would come later.
He lowered her to the ground but did not release her.
“Once you enter Nevernight, you have only to snap your fingers, and you will be brought here.”
He knew he had said something wrong when the color drained from her face and she attempted to shoved him away, demanding,“Can’t you offer favor another way?”
“You didn’t seem to mind,” he pointed out, liking the flush that touched her cheeks and elegant neck. He wanted to tell her she should not be embarrassed, but when she touched her lips with shaking fingers, he lost his train of thought.
“I should go,” she said.
Hades nodded in agreement. If she did not leave now, he would rescind his earlier statement.
Fuck waiting to love her elsewhere, the garden is perfect.
“What are you doing?” she demanded as his arm tightened around her waist.
He was silent, snapping his fingers and teleporting. When they appeared in Persephone’s room, she was gripping his arms like a cat who had been frightened. He waited for her to adjust, her head turning slowly, and as she recognized her surroundings, she pried her fingers from his skin one by one.
“Persephone.” There was one more thing she needed to know before he left her for the night.“Never bring a mortal to my realm again, especially Adonis. Stay away from him.”
Her eyes narrowed, glinting with defiance.“How do you know him?”
“That is not relevant.”
He felt her attempt to pull away, but he held her in place. This was important. He had not saved her from Underworld monsters just to have her hurt by mortal ones.
“I work with him, Hades.”
He ignored the pleasure he got from the sound of his name on her lips.
“Besides, you can’t give me orders.”
“I’m not giving you orders. I am asking.”
“Asking implies there’s a choice.”
His grip increased, and he leaned over her, nearly bending her backward so their faces were inches apart. Again, Hades thought of her lips, her taste, her touch, and he knew she was having similar thoughts because she closed her eyes and swallowed.
He spoke in the silence between them.
“You have a choice, but if you choose him, I will fetch you and I might not let you leave the Underworld.”
Her eyes flew open.“You wouldn’t,” she hissed.
Hades chuckled, his breath caressing her lips as he spoke.“Oh, darling. You don’t know what I’m capable of.”
Then he vanished like smoke fading into the sky.
CHAPTER XI – A GAME FOR A GOD
