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I point. “Why the Hades tattoo?”
“I lost a bet back in college.”
“Really? That’s it?”
“That’s it.” He smiles. “My buddy, Brooks, and I were at a bar. He bet me he could out drink me. If I won, he had to get a tattoo of a microphone on his chest. If he won, I had to get Hades.”
“Okay, so why Hades? And why a microphone for him?”
“Brooks has the voice of an angel. I’m not exaggerating. He could have been a professional singer but ended up going a different route. Ever hear of Brooks the Body McGruff?”
“The pro-wrestler turned actor?”
“That’s him.”
“Yeah, of course I’ve heard of him.”
“I picked the microphone because he doesn’t want the world to know about his hidden talent.” He says, “He picked Hades because he found out that I went through a Greek mythology phase when I was ten or so. Drove everyone around me mad.”
“Let me guess. You liked Hades the best?”
“Guilty.”
“Does that make me Persephone?”
“Well, Ididsteal you from your wedding…”
I laugh. “Touché. Does that mean we have to worry about the other gods trying to tear us apart?”
A dark look flickers across his face.
“No one is going to tear us apart, Isabetta. I’ll kill any man who tries.”
I swallow at the seriousness in his tone. I was going to tell him about what I saw online and about Gia’s messages, but I guess it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.
“Do you have a five?”
I don’t stop the smile that spreads across my face. “Go fish.”
He pulls off both shoes and then his socks, letting them fall to the floor.
“You know, you could have counted that as four items.”
“Maybe I want to get naked faster.”
Heat courses through me because I don’t think he’s joking.
I think. “What was your longest relationship before me?”
“None of them matter.”
“That’s not the question.”
He says, “I only casually dated before you,Dolcezza. I saw one woman on and off for a few years, but it wasn’t serious. Not on my end, at least.”
“So what I’m hearing is you left behind a string of broken hearts.”
His shoulder lifts. “Perhaps. None of them matter. Only you.”
