Page 76 of Hades’ Revenge

“What are you willing to do?”

“Capri.” I ran the cold metal between her breasts and to her stomach. “What is it that you’re asking me?”

She dropped her gaze and followed my hand as I moved the gun over her panties and between her legs. I leaned forward and swept my lips across her jaw as I spread the shirt open and exposed her breasts.

“I can’t tell you the specifics of what I do,” I whispered into her ear as I grazed the gun up her stomach and to her nipple, circling it around. “I’m not going to compromise you.”

Leaning back on the table, she grasped the edge when I wedged my knee between her legs and forced them open. Gliding the gun down her ribs and to her hips, I kissed her with a wild hunger. When I reached her panties, her muscles tightened, but she didn’t stop me from skimming the end of the barrel along the elastic band of them.

“Hades… I…” She clenched my wrist and pushed my hand inside her underwear. “Tell me what you did tonight.”

“I got paid to end someone’s life.” I removed the gun from between her legs and set it on the table before sliding the shirt from her body. Lowering my lips to her breasts, I firmly held her thighs as I licked her heated flesh.

“Whose life?” She grasped my shoulder. “Who did you kill?”

I slid my fingers inside her panties and grazed them along her wet slit. Propelling her back, I stepped between her legs as I undid my belt. I had been inside her less than ten hours ago, but that didn’t satisfy my obsession or my desire to be close to her. I needed her more than I realized after the impromptu job I pulled for Romero.

Once I had my pants unbuttoned, I shoved them over my hips. She propped herself up on her elbows and stared at me with a darkness I had never seen in her gaze. Twisting her panties around my fingers, I yanked them down her legs, fighting the question in her eyes.

“You knew who I was, but you kept coming back.” I hooked her legs around my hips and entered her hard enough to jostle her back. “I tried to send you away, but you didn’t listen.”

“Oh!” She yelped when I thrust deep into her. “I need to know if…” She held onto my shoulders as I slammed into her. “Sebastian, did you…”

“Hades!” I grunted. “What do you need to know?”

“I need you to be Sebastian.” When she took my face between her hands, I lost myself in her innocence. She really didn’t know what she had gotten herself into when she approached me. How could she? “I need to know how far you’ll go.”

I blocked her out, choosing to chase the high she gave me when we were one. I surrendered to my instincts as I pounded into her. She continued to hold my gaze, with my face still trapped between her delicate hands. Her prisoner. I could overpower her and take control. If I wanted, I could spin her around and not look at the torment that ate away at her. But I needed to see her. More importantly, she needed to see the man she chose.

Whatever I was capable of doing in the middle of the night in a steamy, tragic parking garage had nothing to do with the two of us. I would never let that part of me taint her.

“Please…” She closed her eyes and bit the corner of her lip, enticing me to do the same. I nipped at her lips before driving my tongue inside her mouth and violently swirling it around, matching the rhythm I had set inside her. “Hades,” she screamed out.

As she released, I followed, because when we were together, we were identical. We coveted the same desires, the same needs. It was as if our souls had meshed seamlessly together and we were nothing without the other. How did I let that happen?

She let go of my face and rested her head on my shoulder, silently trembling in my arms.

“Hey.” I tilted her chin. “I’m the man I was before I left in the middle of the night. What I did wasn’t anything different than I always do, but you will never be burdened by my choices.”

A flicker of uncertainty flashed before me as tears leaked from her eyes and streamed down her cheeks. Morally gray might not be her favorite color.

“Did you kill my father?”

“What?” I shook my head, but not because I was answering her question. My reaction was in disbelief over that question. “How the hell could you ask me that while I’m still buried inside you? My come is leaking from your pussy and you want to know if I killed Leo?”

Pulling out of her, I released her and stepped back. The rage threatened to break free from my chest, and if that happened, I would unleash the monster on her. We could never come back from that.

“Is it that far-fetched of a question?” she asked. “You hate him.”

“With good reasons.” It was bad enough that Leo had destroyed my life all those years ago, but now he attempted to ruin Capri’s by forcing her into a marriage with Christopher. If I hadn’t intervened, who knew where she would end up. “Leo deserves whatever he fucking gets.”

“Sebastian.” She hopped off the table and retrieved my shirt from the floor, covering herself with it. “Can you blame me for asking?”

If she were anyone else, maybe I would have expected it, but not from her. Not after these past few weeks. Didn’t she know I could never hurt her that way? No matter what my feelings for Leo had festered into or what my initial motivation for pursuing her was, I could never destroy her the way she just annihilated me.

“I’ve had a long night.” I sucked in a breath and gritted my teeth. “I’m going to take a shower.”

Clearing my head was vital, and I couldn’t do that with her doubts taunting me.