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the ones who might change if offered the chance.
She is yours, a voice echoed in his head, and something inside him snapped. Claim her.
thread that pulled at his heart.
Say yes so I can learn all of you.
“I am punishment,” Hades stated.
“Wake, my darling.”
“What? Undress you? Happily, and with far more enthusiasm than you realize, my lady.”
Yes, my queen. Let me feed that fire, awaken your power.
Tell me you want me, he thought, and I will take you now.
“No,” he said. “I am asking you, which of us do you fear more?”
“Persephone is mine to punish,
“She is no mortal,” Hades snapped. “She is to be my wife, and you will treat her as such.”
Oh, darling, he thought. If you only knew how I worship you now.
He was senseless, and she was a spell, a contract he would fulfill endlessly if it meant having her like this every day for the rest of his life.
My lover, he thought. My wife, my queen.
Yes, he thought, build that fire. He wanted her angry, wanted to feel her passion radiate from her body and vibrate through his own.
he begged, “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.”
“Let me be your first.”
“Tell me you have never been naked with a man. Tell me I am the only one.”
“But you want me. I was inside you. I tasted you. That is a truth you will never escape.”
Because I feared exposing the truth of my heart—that I have always desired to love and be loved.
As you move though the exhibit, it is my hope that Halcyon will serve as a flame in the dark for the lost.”
“A touch of darkness,” he murmured, fingers trailing down the inside of her arm until they tangled with her own. “Dance with me.”
“Darling, don’t pretend you weren’t watching me. I know your gaze upon me like I know the weight of my horns.”
“I might decide I want to fuck you with that crown on.”
“I have thought of you every night since you left me in the baths,”
“You left me desperate, swollen with need only for you.”
“But I will be a generous lover.”
“I said I would be a generous lover, not a kind one.”
“Patience, darling,”
“I want you. Be my first, be my everything.”
“Drop your glamour,” she said.
“You want to fuck me with this crown; I want to fuck a god.”
He chuckled. “Eager for me, goddess?”
“I want you.”
“I want you to fuck me.”
“No, let me hear this,” he said, pinning her wrists over her head.
“You are a test, goddess. A trial offered to me by the Fates.”
he had the thought that he would tear this world apart if anyone tried to take Persephone from him.
“You once said you would erase the memory of Adonis from my skin. You swore it, seared your own name upon my lips. Now I will do the same. I will erase the memory of every woman from your mind.”
“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 forgets that I am the darkness. It answers to me.”
Hades had no doubt it was one of several things women wanted, and among them, freedom to exist without worrying about predators like Zeus.
“Perhaps you fear women in power because of the way you use your own—to rape, abuse, and torture.”
“Darling, you are a goddess.”
“Careful, goddess,” he warned. “Or we won’t leave this room.”
“Careful, goddess. I have no qualms taking you before my whole realm.”
He would cloak this place in darkness and draw her up his body until she fit snugly on his cock. He would urge her to remain quiet but make it exceedingly hard as he coaxed her to orgasm.
“You are beautiful. I have never wanted like I want with you.”
