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He wasn’t a good man. Men never are, I’ve found.
The woman lost her innocence in the flames of his betrayal. She rose from the ashes, a goddess in her own right, second only to her new master.
I loved the wrong man and made a deal with the devil to save him.
It’s just as well. The devil suits me better anyway.
I feel drunk on her, even though I haven’t had a drink since I left Olympus.
I love katee robert.
He has the look of his father, both in coloring and in features. I wonder what Zeus would say if he knew my plans, and I barely hold back a smile imagining his rage.
She comes through my office door like a gale-force wind. Even after all these years, my Meg steals my breath when she gets riled like this.
My Meg knows me well, but apparently not well enough. She’s the most priceless thing in my life, the one person I could never replace, not even if I searched the world over.
I knew she was unhappy, but for her trust to have broken down this far stalls my breath in my chest.
“Do you think I’d deny you anything, Meg? You want him. I’ll give him to you.”
“Because, love, we’re going to seduce him. Together.” And, in doing so, we’re going to bring all of Olympus to its knees.
I’m not a fucking idiot, though at this point all evidence of my actions say otherwise.
“First, you learn by watching. Then you learn by participating. You belong to me, and I won’t allow anyone else to hurt you.”
Those blue eyes are wide and hot, and he looks like he’s been led into hell and only now realized that there’s no going back.
Some people looked at us and assumed that Hades built me into the woman I am. It’s not the truth. He simply gave me the platform and freedom to figure out who I was meant to be.
He smooths my hair back. “It’s you and me, Meg. Forever.” Threat or declaration of love? I don’t know. I’ve never known. I look into his dark eyes, and in this moment I can truly believe that this man loves me above all others. That it would hurt him beyond measure to lose me. That he would raze this city to the ground if it meant my happiness was on the line.
“He took everything from me.”
His family??? I feel like Hades from Dark Olympus is his son.
“A son for a son, little Hercules.”
!!! Did zeus kick him out of Olympus, tell everyone he and his fam died, keep little Hades Alive and pretend he did not exist in the lower city?!?
“I was much, much worse. Or better, I suppose, depending on how you look at it. You had the self-awareness to realize all was not as it seemed and to look past your father’s charismatic mirage. I didn’t.”
I want that connection as much as he does, want the purity Hercules brings to every interaction. He hides nothing. It doesn’t even occur to him to try.
He might say he came here for me, but he stayed for Hades.
Every time he turns away instead of reaching out to me, it’s like Declan abandoning me but a thousand times worse because I was infatuated with Declan. I love Hades.
“Would you like another secret, love?” “I want all your secrets.” I don’t know if I’m capable of handing them all over, even to her. I’ve spent the last thirty years hoarding them close.
“You heard our Hades. Clean me up.” Our Hades. As if they claim me as much as I claim them.
