The Mistress & The Renowned: A Hades & Persephone Retelling (Love and Fate Book 2) by Alexis Rune & Jeanette Rose

Author:Alexis Rune & Jeanette Rose [Rune, Alexis & Rose, Jeanette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rose & Star Publishing
Published: 2023-07-11T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Six

Hades

Damn my tongue and my inability to give voice to my thoughts and feelings without coming off as a complete ass. I suppose? What the fuck was that? I was ready to do anything to ensure that Persephone remained mine. There is nothing unsure about the way I felt about her. I’d do more than just kill for her. I’d tear this world and the next down to its barest bones if it meant she would look at me with love in her eyes for a single second. Even my loyal companion, my bound sentry, has tossed me aside for her. I should be upset by such a betrayal, yet the only thought that crossed my mind was, Good, he’ll choose to protect her even if it meant losing me.

I once prided myself on the world I created. I knew every blade of black grass, every blooming orchid, and every being that called this place home. They were all a part of me, and I, a part of them.

All except for one.

The one being I want bound to me in every way is the same one that perplexes me and turns my silver tongue to lead in my mouth. I never stumble over my words or blurt things out. Only around her.

Fuck. All the skills and abilities I’d honed for millennia were useless when pitted against my queen. I once thought of life as a game of chess. Each move causes another, then another. Persephone doesn’t follow any of my predictions. She took one look at the chessboard and flipped the thing over.

My head jerks up when I hear their voices. My feet move toward the sound without conscious effort, in constant search of the goddess who makes me feel whole, calm, content, and relaxed yet makes my heart race and cock harden. I’m a mess of contradictions, and the only thing I can think is how much I need Persephone.

I find them in the library, my favorite spot in the palace, my dragon trove of history and fantasy, including scrolls from the Library at Alexandria to a signed edition of Fire and Blood. My brothers collect weapons and power. I collect knowledge. In the end, the weapons that always stood the test of time were between the pages of a book.

It is fitting she should choose here to plan. It might just be a facade to bring my brothers here, but it still means she will completely accept her role as queen and be mine.

I lean against the doorway, crossing my arms. “Where have you two been?”

Persephone glances at me, and for a moment, she looks happy to see me, but then her eyes become guarded. “Mellie was showing me some of the Underworld.”

I grind my teeth. That is my job. I should be the one showing her the world she would call home for half the year.

“Morpheus hates when you go there,” I admonish Mellie. There is only one place Mellie would choose to visit. There is a good reason that Morpheus couldn’t stand the sight of Mellie.

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