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“You see me, Aradia,” I whisper—and rub my lips along her brow.
Releasing her teeth, she lifts her chin. I’d swear those eyes hold a transcendent sight. They target mine. Her mystical blue orbs send invisible arrows firing bullseyes through me. But they’re not arrows. They’re seek and find missiles, blasting through my heart of stone.
“Eros…” she whispers.
Snarling at her audacity, I fuck her. With the low sounds of Pothos and Crescendo rutting behind us, Desire and I pump her hard, rocking the swing.
Another orgasm tears through her. Fuck. I growl and spear her so deep, my cock feels every inch of my brother’s as I stake my powerful territory. Bloody Valentines, she’s riding me, practically humping me, meeting every gods-damned thrust of my cock.
This little mortal will be the death of me. She’s the brightest, most beautiful dirty slut of a gorgeous little woman with a heart great enough to love my Purgatory and a soul wild and strong enough to love…me.
One more hard thrust.
We explode together. Lighting up the dark. Falling apart but holding on together. Seeing one another. Breaking in.
And for the first time in a century, for the first time since the curse was dealt to me, I believe. I choose to believe inher.
The stone inside me cracks. Shatters with our release. And the fragments, like tattered threads of a chrysalis, fall away while I kiss my Butterfly, holding her, knowing I will never let her go.
33
“Eros and Eros, alone, must choose.”
ARADIA
Iwake because I can’t breathe.
One minute, I was liquefying in his arms after a volcanic explosion, where we’d burned bright together, streaking across the cosmos like shooting stars chasing one another. He caught me.
One minute, I tasted his blood and swore I could feel the weight of his empyreal eyes gazing at me. The godlike beauty and epitome of masculinity hewn from the chisel of Chaos itself.
Though I could see nothing, Ifelthis aura. Like it was bleeding from his pores. It felt like butterfly palpitations, divine black roses, sexual crystals, and chaotic stardust. Like electric sparks and radiant warmth.
I felt him. I saw him.
Now, something is siphoning my breath. Pain throbs all around my neck. I c-can’t s-swallow. I’ve experimented with breath play, but this is nothing erotic. Or careful. Or strategic,meant to drive a flurry of endorphins and adrenaline to achieve a greater high.
This is…sinister. This is violent. Deadly. Someone is trying to—to kill me?
My vision is too blurred, but I blink until the silhouette forms. Something pops in my eardrums, and I’m aware of how extreme this is, how serious. If I lose consciousness, it will be over.
Trapped between a rock and a hard place, the only heat I feel is at my back.Hisheat. And the steady pulse of his breath as whatever is in front of me stays silent as a grave while trying to end my life.
I can’t breathe. I can’t fight. I can’t move back or forward. Numbness sweeps through my body as black dust invades my vision. I try to struggle, to claw at whatever is strangling me, but it’s too fast.
I’m about to black out…with the God of Love sleeping next to me.
“EROS!”
The deep thunderous roar sends Eros into a violent writhing fit, but I hardly feel his body knocking against mine. Just as a fist of darkness closes in, air surges into my lungs, and I choke on my gasps.
Out of the corner of my eye, Eros has shifted into his gargoyle form. Hades is here. Together, they pin the crazed form of soulless Psyche to the floor. She’s thrashing, gnashing her teeth, screeching at the top of her goddess lungs. Blood coats her fingernails. Pieces of flesh.Myflesh.
Psyche was trying to kill me.
I touch my throat and wince at the bruises. Tears flood my eyes, spilling down my cheeks, shedding silent streams because I’m too frozen to speak.
“Forfuck’ssake, Eros!” Hades growls and touches his hand to Psyche’s brow. I blink, awed by how she succumbs to him, falling with her veins shimmering like black oil. Still. Silent. Unconscious.
