Page 80 of Guided by the Stars
His eyes shoot to Alexius for a split second before a smile breaks across his face. “Calm down, babe, I refused to let go, remember? Kelsey pulled that bitch’s branch out of you. Its thorns caught my hand.” He leans forward placing a kiss on my forehead and I swear the couch shakes as the beast behind me tenses. Daemyn rolls his eyes, leaning back and smirking my way. “Anyway, I should heal once my energy is back. That’s besides the point though.” I eye him as his lips form into that mischievous smirk of his. “You need to think harder, our damsel. You should ask the most important question.”
He pulls out a sheet of paper, holding it between his fingers and flapping it with a smile on his face that could melt any girls’ panties away. No chance in hell I won’t take this bait. I arch my brows, curious to see what besides taunting Alexius could give the Big Boy such a shit-eating grin.
“Kelsey is how I talk to Jax,” Daemyn’s voice is light and teasing and tears start to prick at my eyes as I understand his meaning.
Seven simple words and with that look on his face, he wouldn’t drag this out. “Big Boy, does that mean what I think?”
“Yes, babe,” he says in his smokey voice, smiling.
“Boys?” My voice falters, knowing his look means this note changes everything.
“Adriane’s leaving the Underworld. You guys are going home, babe.” My squeal has both boys laughing when I leap towards Daemyn, hugging him as tightly as I can and pulling Alexius along for the ride. In any other case, this would be awkward as hell. Alexius’ arm pulled with mine around Daemyn’s neck, the three of us sandwiched together, but both boys give me this moment.
A very brief moment on Alexius’ part. He pulls me into his lap and lets Daemyn run the show, filling me in on the details. It’s a pretty basic plan. We sit and wait for the Underworld to open, then Daemyn and his brother work some magic, and by the time Zeus sends in his Army to come looking for us, we’ll be hidden.
“All of us? We will all be going, right?”
“Of course, babe. Alexius, now part of the elite guards, and with this stone. We can do this. We will all portal to the hotel together once she comes out.”
“So boys, how does my Beast infuse that stone?” I arch my brow towards him, soaking in all that is Alexius and that sexy smirk of his. I cannot believe I have this god on my side. He’s figured it all out, keeping his promise.
Adriane
When Fire Fades
The water is cascading down my body and it feels so amazing. I want to sit under the spray and close myself off, but Kai is waiting on me. I just want a quick shower to get the dirt and tears off me. I’d love to bleach my entire body and my brain because when my eyes close, I recall what Hades did to me. All the horrors I saw play on a constant loop in my mind. There is no evidence of what I went through besides the tattoo and my memory. I shudder at the thought of Hades’ hands touching me. I scrub my body as if I could take off layers of my skin and it turns red. I turn the water hotter, hoping to burn the images from my mind. My back still tingles, though I know it’s only phantom pain.
Tears are coming and I try to keep my sobs quiet because I don’t want Kai to hear. I need to hurry. Kai wants me to eat, and I didn’t tell him what his father did, because I won’t risk him or Jax, so I keep it to myself. I’m raw inside and out, I have been through so much in a matter of hours. I rememberthinking once I became an adult that I would never be in the same position I was when I was a child, but that was stupid because this was the worst I have ever had to endure. Tears trail down my face, and I want to hold them back, but they just keep coming. I remember that person boiling in oil over and over, and the skin just peeling away from their bones.
I scrubbed the back of my neck as soon as I was alone. I looked in the mirror and saw the tattoo. It’s a dolphin trapped in a net, and the meaning is obvious.
He has trapped me, taken my freedom. I am his.
Kai’s secrets play in my mind; they have left me even more gutted. I never cared enough to ask for someone’s personal story before because I knew I never stuck around long enough to care.
That pull was there for Jax and Kai. I have been through enough in my life that I wasn’t stupid enough to ignore the instinct that pulled me towards them. At first, I fought it. But now I know these gods and I see why I get this tug towards them. Jax is someone I trust fully. I know he will be there through thick and thin. Kai is my other half, he makes me whole. Reaching out, I turn the water off and push open the glass door. Kai is standing there with a towel in his hands. He moves towards me, drying my face. Pulling the towel away he gives me a light kiss as he wraps the towel around my body.
This is it! My life forever.
Hades wants me at his side, so I don’t know how all this is going to work. I mentally shake my head because I am not thinking of that tonight, we can figure it out another time. I move towards the door.
“Wait,” Kai says and grabs my hand, pulling me towards him.
“What’s wrong?” I ask. There is a black shirt in his hand.
“Jax is waiting for us to eat together,” he says, helping me into the shirt. “Plus, we all need to talk and afterwards, I promise I will put you to bed.” He kisses my forehead, but I notice something flash in his eyes. The forehead kiss is so nice. I once heard that when someone kisses you like that it means they care for you. It’s seen as a sign of respect and adoration. Joy courses through my body because I have earned a place in his life. He kneels to put the boxer briefs on me as I step into them.
“Jealousy,” I say out loud not meaning to, but that was what flashed in his eyes. His hands tighten around my leg as he slides his boxer briefs on me. “Kai, are you jealous?”
He pulls them up as he stands, flipping me around to face away from him and holding me against his chest. “Haven’t you noticed yet that gods and goddesses are jealous creatures?” he growls in my ear. His warm soft breath sends a trickle of longing down to my pussy and I start to get wet. His smell is so intoxicating, I ache for him.
I lean my head back to look at him. He is smirking at me as one of his hands presses into my stomach under the shirt and the other one he places around my neck. I squeeze my legs together to fight the yearning I feel. That smirk grows as he notices my legs and I’m sure he can see the heated look in my gaze.
I realize that Kai is the person I’d pick even if I wasn’t here in the Underworld, so maybe in a strange way I am lucky they brought me here because if not, I’d have gone my entire life without feeling this. This is the moment you see in the movies, the one when it all dawns on you. Funny, I never saw this happening to me and yet here I am. Maybe Kai doesn’t even care for me the way I care for him, but with my end looming, why not just take the moments that I can and live? He is agod and I am a mortal, because sure I have the Delphin gene in me, but that does not make me immortal.
One of his fingers glides across my neck, sending pleasure rushing to my pussy. I want to moan. “Possessiveness is what I feel for you too, not just jealousy, Skoteino,” he whispers in my ear as he kisses me right below my earlobe and licks that soft spot there.
So he is jealous and I don’t know why, but it brings me joy. The hand he has on my stomach moves further downward, slipping under the boxer briefs. “Do you want me to stop, Skoteino?” he whispers again in my ear. I shake my head no and he chuckles darkly. “Say it, I want to hear you. Tell me not to stop.” His voice is so husky that I tremble in his arms.
