Hades Is Mine: Paranormal Romance (Gods and Monsters Book 4) by Mila Young

Author:Mila Young [Young, Mila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Ares

I hoped for a ceasefire or something that would give us a break at least. Zeus knew if anyone needed it, Elyse did. But there would be no rest for the weary. When X found her outside Hades’s home, intent on killing her, it had taken all three of us to stop him from going after Elyse and finishing her off once and for all. We three gods stood like a wall between her and X. He backed away fast because he was a pussy who only attacked Elyse when she was alone.

Following that incident, Heracles watched over her, but something inside her had changed, clicked a bit, as if she’d found solace somewhere. But she barely wanted to talk about anything when we tried to sit down with her. She seemed a world away, lost in thoughts, in fear, in dread, and everything else, I guessed.

And why not? I understood she struggled with the idea of being a failure. We all knew she wasn’t. The power lying dormant inside her, popping its head out every now and then, lingered, but we weren’t allowed to say anything about it.

Heracles had made me promise, and the idea of sitting back ate at my insides. I loathed these games Zeus played, letting Elyse work it out herself, and all that journey bullshit.

It was bullshit if you asked me. Why couldn’t we tell Elyse she had what it took to defeat X? I understood what Heracles meant, but it was ridiculous to think she could have this latent power inside of her, energy she knew nothing of, but she could still die if she didn’t figure it out before it was too late. My stomach hardened the more I thought about it.

All we wanted to do was help her before it became too late, rather than sit back and watch her like our performing monkey.

The past few days, I’d spent every second with her. We’d done everything together. I had to look after her, as did everyone else.

Secretly, I enjoyed spending this much time with her, playing house. I liked doing the mundane little things, keeping life run-of-the-mill for as long as everything remained calm and X didn’t try anything stupid.

It was great to get to know Elyse on this intimate level, seeing the real her, not just the strong fighter, and I loved the idea of being a significant other in her life, which was how it felt when we did things like this together.

“I forgot to get tomatoes,” she said when we arrived at the car, loading the bags of groceries in the back.

“Do you want to go back?” I asked.

She sighed. “How important is it? I can stop and get some tomorrow, right? I’m sick of the store.”

“Tomorrow is okay,” I replied, even if I craved a cheese and tomato toasted sandwich, and it wasn’t the same without tomatoes. Compromise. That was what you did in relationships.

“What’s that?” Elyse asked, looking past me.

“What?” I turned toward the store but couldn’t hear or see anything.

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