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.

“In case you think that I was using it as an excuse to press your beautiful body against mine,” he flirted, making her shiver as his gaze slowly moved over her once more, “I assure you it was necessary. We were traveling through the ether between points in the Underworld.

“No!” she said wide-eyed. “No, that’s not what I meant. Chthonia is just so very… different. Beautiful and different. I— I like that I had to hold on to you,” she blushed. Aidon straightened, taken aback, before he took a step closer to her and cupped her face in his hand, running his thumb across her cheek. He carefully leaned over and rested his forehead against hers, letting her make the first move to kiss him. Persephone stared up at his dark eyes and saw a soft smile on his face. She stepped into the kiss, feeling his arms close around her. She crushed her lips against his. Her hands came up to his collarbone, her index finger slowly winding through her favorite lock of hair at the nape of his neck; the one that was always too short to be caught in the band he wore to pull back his unruly hair.

Do not forget who you toy with. I am the eldest of the gods and I will not be made into a fool. Especially not by a mere slip of a girl.” “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.

Do not forget who you toy with. I am the eldest of the gods…

“Demeter freezes and starves the mortals, and they build her a temple. I make sure the dead don’t return to haunt the living, and they fear to speak my name.” He