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He wanted it to mean something.
“Ari—” he began and took a step toward her.
“Good night, Dionysus,” she said.
He stared a moment and then managed a ghost of a smile and nodded. “Good night, Ariadne.”
He watched her turn and disappear down the hall.
CHAPTER XV
HADES
Hades heard Persephone take a sharp breath, and his head snapped in the direction of the bed where he found her sitting up, looking wide-eyed and confused until she met his gaze and relaxed.
Before he could ask what had startled her, she spoke. “Did you sleep at all?”
“No,” he said.
He’d lain beside her for a few hours after they had sex but never drifted off, so he rose and dressed and waited for her to rise. He was eager for her to get ready for work because he wanted to take her to Alexandria Tower and show her the floor he hoped she would agree to use for her work onThe Advocate. There were enough offices for everyone in her employ, at the moment Helen, Leuce, and Sybil.
He felt ridiculous that he had not offered it before, though there were times when Persephone was so independent, he wasn’t sure how or when to help her. She certainly would never ask.
“Nightmare?” he asked, worry twisting deep in his gut.
If she had dreamed of Pirithous, he was sure his actions had triggered her. He had been too much last night.
“No,” she said, shaking her head. “I…thought I overslept.”
He wasn’t sure he believed her, but perhaps that was his own fear speaking.
He finished the last of his drink, leaving his glass behind, and went to her. She held his gaze as he approached. She was like a siren in a sea of black silk—one look, one call, and he bent to her will.
“Why didn’t you sleep?” she asked as he caressed her cheek.
“I didn’t feel like sleeping,” he said.
The longer he lived, the less he needed. It did not help, however, that the majority of the business he conducted happened in the dead of night.
“I thought you would be exhausted.” Her eyes flashed and she sounded a little cross.
He smiled, amused. “I didn’t say I wasn’t tired.”
He smoothed his thumb over her bottom lip, and she took it between her teeth and then sucked it into her mouth.
Fuck.
He was trying to begood, but he found himself twisting his hand in her hair, dragging her face closer to him, level with his cock. He considered ordering her to take it out, to suck him until he came in her mouth, but something about it didn’t seem right, so he just held her there, aching.
She released his thumb and frowned. “Why are you holding back?”
“Oh, darling,” he said, voice rumbling. “If you only knew.”
“I would like to,” she said and dropped her blanket, exposing her breasts.
He wanted to groan—perhaps he did. He didn’t really know because his ears were ringing, and he was doing everything in his power not to fuck her again like he did last night.
She had work, and while that usually wouldn’t matter to him, it did today.
