Receiver of Many (Hades & Persephone, #1)

by Rachel Alexander

Then Hades did something he had never done before in all his ageless years. He blushed.

Hades Aidoneus Chthonios, Polydegmon. The Unseen One. Receiver of Many. Ruler of the Other Side and Lord of the Dead…

Persephone Praxidike Chthonios. She Who Destroys the Light. Carrier of Curses. The Iron Queen of the Underworld.

“I should never have brought you here. My life was ordered; it made sense before you threw it into pandemonium. And when you do spread your legs for me, Persephone, when you welcome me inside your body, you turn me into a fool— an idiot— that thinks you are capable of loving me.”

“You’re my fool,” she whispered into his ear, guiding him to her entrance. He pulled back her hair and bit at her collarbone, angry and undone, feeling her undulate against him. “And you are my whore,” Hades growled.

Nearly anything can be forgiven, if one is willing to open their heart completely.”

“Persephone, I have loved you and only you for forty thousand years. And I will love you and only you until the stars are shaken out of the sky.”

She was Persephone Praxidike Chthonios. The Queen of the Underworld. And, she thought with a delighted quiver, the Queen of Hades, her husband.

“I want to make love to you.” She silenced him, and watched his eyes go wide. “And, and I want to…” Persephone swallowed hard and looked away, embarrassed, before leaning closer to his ear with a fevered whisper. “And I want to fuck you.”

The more we attempt to control our destiny, the less it bends to our liking.”

One day, they too will be forgotten as surely as all the tongues the mortals once spoke and the cities they first built. But you and your consort will endure.”

“I’ll see the world break before he lays a finger on you.”