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January 5 - January 20, 2025
He smirked, and she could feel it deep in her gut. “Darling, I win either way.”
hope you’ll find him pleasing. Our lord is often alone.”
“Drop your glamour.” He looked at her curiously. She shrugged a shoulder. “You want to fuck me with this crown. I want to fuck a god.” His smirk was devilish, and he answered, “As you wish.”
“No soul has ever healed by dwelling on the past,” Thanatos answered.
“I’m not interested in romanticizing Hades for doing something all men should be doing.”
Respect could build an empire. Trust could make it unbreakable. Love could make it last forever.
“But truly—love looks good on you.”
a woman caged by her own mind.”
“I don’t need your forgiveness to live an unburdened life, and I most certainly will not beg for it.”
you will always be the ruler of my heart.”
“I have waited lifetimes for you,” he said as if it was an oath he was swearing upon every star in the sky, every drop of water in the ocean, every soul in the entire universe. “I know it.”
He could have explained that her love for this indifferent man made her resentful, that the moment she decided to release him from her affections, the better her life would be, but he knew she would not hear him, so he did not speak.
His impending punishment had nothing to do with the fact that he had touched someone of Divine blood—it was that he had hurt a woman. Hades was not tolerant of violence against women or children. In fact, he hated it so much, there was a special level in Tartarus for those responsible of such crimes, and their punishments were doled out by the Furies themselves, the three feared Goddesses of Vengeance; Nemesis, the Goddess of Retribution; and Hecate, who took it upon herself to personally punish abusers.
