The Power of Hades (The Hades Trials, #1)

by Eliza Raine

'In my experience, the prettiest men are the best ones to avoid,' I told her. 'Now, what can I get you?'

'Welcome to hell,' she said, with a grin.

'People only see smoke,' I said. 'He wasn't always like that,' she answered quietly. Something in my stomach tightened. 'What happened?' I asked, but deep in my gut, I already knew the answer. 'You.'

He kept the orchid alive for you. It's all he had left.

'You brought light, and life, to a place where I thought none could exist.'

He loved me. I could see it in his face, hear it in his broken voice, feel it in his electrifying touch. All this time, all those years alone in New York, and someone, somewhere, loved me this much. And I never knew.