Page 71 of Hades’ Revenge

“How did you…” Her eyes widened. “You knew?”

“From the moment you invaded my world, I’ve made it my mission to know everything there is to know about you.” I twisted my fingers into the bottom of her dress and slid it up her side. “The other night at the reception, you asked what I was doing here.”

“Why did you come?” She swallowed hard, keeping her gaze fixed on mine.

She jolted when I slammed my forearm against the wall by her face, keeping her trapped in my orbit. Trailing my lips along her jaw to her ear, I rubbed my thumb across her hipbone and to her panties.

“I’m here to make sure everyone knows who you belong to and that I will stop at nothing to have you.” I spun her around and pushed her against the wall, wedging my knee between her legs and spreading her thighs apart. “Starting with you.”

TWENTY

Capri

My cheek grazed the cool hotel wall by the suite door as Sebastian tugged on the zipper of my dress. My heart raced as my stomach tensed, riding out the pulse between my legs.

“Why didn’t you tell me you knew what my father had planned?” I asked.

“Because as you said, it didn’t matter.” He grasped the beaded satin from my shoulders and shimmied it down my body. “I was never going to let you enter into that arrangement.”

“You really are my hero.”

“I’m plenty of things.” He kissed his way down my spine as he dropped to his knees. “But I don’t think I’ve ever been anyone’s hero.”

“Then I can be a first for you.”

“You’re more of my firsts than you know.” He hooked his fingers in the sides of my panties and glided them down my legs, helping me out of them. I scratched at the wall when his fingers skimmed my inner thighs.

“Oh…” I breathed out when he brushed his lips along my backside.

“I’m obsessed with your body.” He pushed his fingers inside me from behind, wasting no time going deep. “Fucking you has become the most prominent thought in my mind. Do you know how distracting that is?”

“I have a pretty good idea.” I had gone from never having sex to wanting it both while I was awake and in my sleep. “I dream about it.”

“You don’t have to dream.” He kept a pleasurable pace inside me while he licked and kissed his way back into a standing position. “As much as I want to take you from behind, pressed up against this wall, I’ll have to save that for another time.”

“Why?” My nipples scraped against the wall as he rustled with his belt. “You can take me any way you want.”

“I will.” He spun me to face him. “Right now, I want to see that gorgeous face of yours and stare into your mesmerizing eyes when I enter you.”

When he lifted me off my feet, I clasped my legs around his waist, bracing myself for the desirable impact of him slamming inside me. He didn’t disappoint.

“Fuck!” He pinned me to the wall with his powerful form, stilling inside me and staring into my eyes.

In that moment, we halted any movements, even breathing, as time stopped. Any outside distractions, all the things we couldn’t control, vanished. There was nothing left but the two of us. My heart, my soul, my love…

“Can you feel it?” he whispered. “Do you know?”

“I…” Closing my eyes, I took a breath when he began to thrust inside me. “Hades…”

In between hot, unrestrained kisses, he murmured passionate words that I didn’t understand. When he flipped from English to Greek, I focused on the sound of his voice. The tenderness in his tone drove me wild with need.

I clenched around him, quickly losing myself in the sensation he created. Not just the physical connection, but in the strength of the emotional bond we had formed over these past few weeks.

“Capri.” He mumbled more words I couldn’t comprehend as he penetrated me and then pulled all the way out. Repeating his unhinged motion and holding me hostage with his entire body.

“I don’t understand, but I feel it.” The fire inside my stomach exploded into every fiber of my being until it burst free. Clinging onto Sebastian like he was a lifeline, I relished in the feel of him. “I need you.”

“You have me,” he replied.