Everything shuts off in a whoosh of silence, leaving only the sound of dripping in its wake.
A dripping that originates from Hades’s clothes.
He growls.
And I take a step back.
“What the Styx is going on in here?” Maliki demands as he materializes near the door.
“An excellent question, indeed,” Hades mutters as he unfastens his suit jacket. “I told you to bathe our Omega. Yet somehowIam the one taking an impromptu shower whilst clothed.”
He pulls the fabric from his shoulders and allows it to fall to the floor with a loudplop.
Maliki glances between us, his gaze running over me in a slow caress. “You haven’t showered yet?” he asks, his brow furrowing.
“It’s malfunctioning,” I grit out, gesturing to the glass and then to Hades. “Obviously.”
“The shower can’t malfunction,” Maliki says slowly. “It’s desire-based.”
I blink at him. “It’s what?”
“Desire-based,” Hades echoes, like I have a hearing problem.
He’s unbuttoning his black vest now, the soaked clothing sticking to his muscular physique and somehow making him all the more intimidating.
Yet I can’t stop myself from snapping, “I heard Maliki just fine, thank you. I’m trying to understand whatdesire-basedmeans.”
That arrogant eyebrow of his wings upward again, making me wish the water was flow?—
The shower springs to life to drench him again, causing my eyes to widen.
Because oh.
Ohhh.
I think I… I think I understand now.
Maybe.
My lips curl down as I think about the water shutting off.
It does.
And Hades growls again.
Oops, I think.But why didn’t it turn on before when I told it to?I wonder, my frown deepening as I look at the enclosure. “I swear it wasn’t working five minutes ago.”
“Maybe you didn’t desire a shower then?” Morpheus’s voice has me spinning toward the door to find him leaning against the frame, his long legs crossed at the ankles and his hands in his pockets. “I believe Maliki offered to join you right before we left. Perhaps I’m wrong, but that’s the kind of promise that inspires daydreams, yes?”
I blink at him, my cheeks heating.
Because he’s right.
I was fantasizing about Maliki being in the shower with me.
Stars,this is embarrassing.
My gaze starts to fall to the ground but snags on the mirror… where I see my reflection. Myvery nakedreflection.
