Page 56 of Hades’ Revenge

“I’ll never let you down.”

My father couldn’t even look at me. Not that I could blame him. If I tried to see the situation from his perspective, I couldn’t deny it seemed pretty bad. I mean, what dad wanted to think about his daughter sleeping with someone? It had to be even more difficult to know the man she chose was not only twenty-four years older than her, but he was also someone he hated with every fiber of his being. Could it get any more complicated?

“Trust me.” Sebastian led me into the suite by my hand. “We’ll figure this out.”

I nodded, feeling less confident than he appeared.

“Do you regret pursuing me?” He confined me between the wall and his muscular body, resting his forearm against it. “Because there isn’t anything I would do differently.” His breath danced across my lips. “Well, that’s not entirely true.”

“It isn’t?” My knees buckled when he skimmed his hand down my side and to the bottom of my sundress, bunching it in his grasp and lifting it to my hip, exposing my yellow panties.

He held me captive with his gaze. My lips quivered as I waited for him to claim them.

“If I had to do it again, I never would have allowed you to leave my bed in Greece.” He raised my dress higher as he inched closer to me. “I’d hold you hostage and fuck you whenever I wanted.”

“I would have stayed.”

“Now you tell me.” He pressed his lips to my jaw. “I’m taking you back with me, and I won’t take no for an answer.”

“I want to say yes but…”

His lips were on mine before I could finish my sentence. His rough kiss rendered me speechless as I gave in and allowed him to steal my senses. If I left with him now, I could go back to believing there only ever needed to be the two of us. No feuds, no vendettas, and no guilt. I didn’t want to have to apologize for what my heart wanted. What my soul craved. What my body desired.

“You will say yes,” he muttered against my lips. “I won’t give you a choice.”

“I have to finish school.”

“We have schools in Greece.” He wedged his knee between my legs, spreading them apart. “You’ll get that degree in fashion. The one you wanted in the first place. We’ve already discussed this.”

“Don’t tempt me,” I breathed against his mouth. “I only have one semester left and I…”

When he trailed his hand from my hip to my thigh, I abandoned my thought process as quickly as I would my life here to be with him. How had I fallen so hard and so fast?

He clasped his hand in mine and pinned it to the wall above my head as he glided his other hand inside my panties. Wasting no time, his finger strummed my clit as he swept his mouth across my jaw and to my ear.

“I need you with me,” he whispered. “Just as much as you need this.”

Pushing his fingers inside me, he shifted his wrist in a slow, tormenting rhythm. I unraveled under his touch. The possessive pressure that kept me coming back. I couldn’t stay away from him.

“You came to me.” He kept my legs open with the strength of his muscular thigh pressing into mine as he circled his fingers inside me. “I tried to make you go.”

“You didn’t try that hard.” I seized the lapel on his jacket. “Wasn’t it you who asked me to strip and get into the pool with you?”

“After you trespassed on my property.” He traced his tongue along my lips. “Wasn’t it you who asked me to take your virginity?”

“Yes.” I rubbed my mouth along his, licking the seam of his lips. “I’ll never regret that.”

“And I’ll never apologize for taking what was always meant to be mine.”

“I… Yes.” I hoisted my leg over his hip and rocked into his hand, forcing him deeper. “Oh…”

“I love watching when you come.” He released my hand from the wall, abandoning it for my throat. “You’re beautiful.”

“Hades… I…” I shuddered into his hand, spilling hot and hard onto his fingers. “Mmm…”

“You’re mine.” He spoke against my lips. “You’ll go wherever I tell you to go.”

I gazed into his eyes, agreeing to whatever he wanted, because he had the capacity to make me see who I really was. Fuck the consequences. For the first time in my life, I wanted to have the control to choose my own path. In surrendering to him, I found freedom.