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Heidi *Bookwyrm Babe, Voyeur of Covers, Caresser of Spines, Unashamed Smut Slut, the Always Sleepy Wyrm of the Stacks, and Drinker of Tea and Wine*
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She is yours, a voice echoed in his head, and something inside him snapped. Claim her.
He could have offered her favor without laying so much as a finger on her, but it was an excuse to touch her.
He felt ridiculous; he had kissed and fucked, but he had never felt this…whatever it was. This burning desire, this desperate wish to claim and protect and to love.
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.
Fuck waiting to love her elsewhere, the garden is perfect.
Hades thought of her lips, her taste, her touch, and he knew she was having similar thoughts because she closed her eyes and swallowed.
“Oh, darling. You don’t know what I’m capable of.”
he could not protect her from those who would wish to harm him.
Because you are mine, he wanted to say, but those words froze in his throat.
You will be my wife and queen. You will sit on a throne.
“How can you be so passionate and not believe in love?” He laughed bitterly and said, “Because passion doesn’t need love, darling.”
My lover, he thought. My wife, my queen.
“Let me show you what it is to hold power in your hands. Let me coax the darkness from you. I will help you shape it.”
Except now, she was the only person he wanted close to his heart.
It was her love he wanted. Because it was her he loved.
This is what it is to be a god. “You are mine.” This is humbling. She let him into her body. “Mine.”
Nothing, not a mortal and not the Fates, would keep him from the euphoria that was Persephone—his lover, his queen, his goddess.
“I want you inside me,” she said. “Fuck me, say my name as you come. Dream of me, and only me, for the rest of eternity.”
Take her, and I will destroy this world. Take her, and I will destroy you. Take her, and I will end us all.
He would never let her go again.
“I love you. I should have told you sooner. I should have told you that night in the baths. I knew then.” Her smile was beautiful, and it was something he wanted to win every day of his life. “I love you, too.”
