Hades (3 page)

“Your leader is Lucifer, he is a wonderful
guy full of life and fun. Some of the gods have families, Zeus is
mated to Sierra and they have a beautiful daughter. Hermes is mated
to Chastity and they are raising her younger brother. They are
planning for a large family and I’m sure they will have a child
soon. They have parties where they meet females, the demons attend
as well. Darius met his soul mate at the first one. If you are
better, you’ll be able to attend the next one.”

Doc found herself talking to him the whole
time she treated him knowing that the frame of mind a patient was
in, could often determine life or death. Finally she was to the
point where she could do no more. The outcome was now up to him,
she turned away to go to the next patient and he caught her
arm.

“I will live!” he vowed, his voice barely a
whisper.

None of the demons had been treated gently,
but none of the others were at death’s door like the first had
been. All but the first were ready to travel and two were placed on
stretchers and put one per helicopter that left. Soon, the only one
left was the first and he was much better then he had been. She
walked beside his stretcher holding his hand until they arrived at
the helicopter. Hades growled as he saw her hand in hand with the
demon. She would have argued but the demon moved his hand. The
possessiveness of these gods was extreme and they seemed to have
little control of it. Hades had gotten worse since the start of
this mission and she feared they would have a serious argument
soon.

He picked up Doc and jumped into the copter
while two of his squad strapped the demon’s stretcher to the side
of the copter. Hades pushed her into the seat next to him but
against the wall where she could see her patient, but no one else
could get near her. She looked at the god who claimed to be her
mate but had not acted like it. He was a puzzle to her, made up of
opposing actions. He growled at her patient but then placed her
where she could see him. He was a mix of kindness and deviousness.
He was a little devilish, like his name might imply. He gave a lot
but he could take your soul. If she was honest, she wanted him, but
she was afraid to have him.

The ride was uneventful but hot and
uncomfortable. They flew to a large city airport where half of
those freed waited with part of Hades squad. The others had flown
in another plane heading home ahead of them. Hades dragged her by
her arm to the back of the plane where a private bedroom with a
private bathroom was. He pulled out a drawer showing her it was
full of clothes then he pushed her into the bathroom. It seemed he
wanted her to clean up, she would but only because she wanted to.
He never spoke much, but this trip he had said almost nothing to
her. Maybe that was for the best, there was really nothing left to
say.

She showered, the water felt so good running
over her skin but she washed quickly. She was sure everyone on the
plane would want to clean up. She found a shirt long enough to call
a dress and put that on with a pair of boxers, small ones, from
who, she didn’t know. The sizes of the items of clothing in the
drawers were all over the place. She hurried out to find a seat
only to find Hades wanted her to stay in the room.

“Those here first took showers in the
building as did those with us while you showered here. I’m the only
one left so you can rest in the bed.” He had backed her into the
room then gently shoved her on the bed. He walked past to the
bathroom and she heard the water turn on.

In her naughty mind, she imagined him naked
with the water running down his body. She had a good imagination
and she let it take flight. At some point, she grew tired of
waiting for him to come out of the bathroom, she fell asleep.
Waking, she felt enveloped in warmth and smooth skin was wrapped
around her. She felt something poking her rear end, it was probably
what had woken her. It took her foggy mind a few moments to realize
what had happened. Hades lay up against her, his arm pulling her up
close to him. She waited a little while enjoying lying with him
before she woke him so he would move.

She finally turned to face him. “What do you
think you were doing, getting in bed with me?”

“Holding a beautiful woman who happens to be
my mate?”

“You know we’ll never be together and you
know why.”

“Is it because of Marlin?” She looked
confused.

“I know he proposed to you the night of the
ball, I thought you accepted.”

Her face flushed slightly. “I don’t know how
you found out about that. I turned him down and stopped seeing him
after that. I’m not what he needs, I’m not what any man needs.”

“You’re what I need and I don’t know that
we’ll never be together and I know your reasons but I don’t agree
with them. Even if I did what you accuse me of, we were only to the
friend level, we weren’t dating and we weren’t having sex so I
couldn’t cheat on you.”

She had to admit he had a point, but his
actions had just cut her too deeply. He moved to where they were
touching and while her mind tried to reason through what he had
said, he claimed her lips in a kiss the like of which she had never
felt before. Heat flowed through her body, her mind was like jelly,
all she could do was cling to him riding out the kiss and the touch
of his hands which seemed to be everywhere at once. Before she
could utter a protest, he ended the kiss leaving the room without a
backward glance.

She didn’t know what to do, was it possible
to be in love with someone who had no morals? Could she put that
aside if she stopped considering how she and her sisters had been
raised? And most importantly, could he change and learn the way a
male should treat his mate, his wife? She knew she was grasping at
straws because the truth was, in the time they had become friends,
she had realized she wanted to be so much more.

Chapter 2

The List

Sierra watched with interest as Darius
squirmed. “I’m not sure what you want me to do, Darius.”

“Tell her she has to stay with me.”

Sierra fought not to laugh at him. He was a
typical god, arrogant and clueless about how to handle a
relationship with a woman. They were good at brief sexual contact,
but a mate or a wife, that was a whole new world for them. He
wasn’t doing any better then Hermes or Zeus for that matter.

“I can’t do that. You need to resolve your
problems between the two of you. Others can and often will give
advice ask for or not, but the resolution is up to the two of you.
If you’ve done something wrong, the resolution is up to you if you
want her as your mate. Now tell me, what have you done?”

“I didn’t do anything wrong,” he said with a
slight whine to his voice. “I just told her that she’s going to
stay home to care for me and whatever children we might have. She
doesn’t need a job, taking care of me is now her job.”

“So you don’t see anything wrong with telling
her that?”

“No, I don’t.”

“What would you do if she told you that?”

“Why would she tell me that? I have a very
important job, I am Zeus’s personal assistant,” he said full of
self importance.

“Why indeed? Did it occur to you she might
feel her job was important too?”

“I didn’t say it wasn’t, I just want to take
care of her.”

“You can take care of her better if you
consider her job as important as yours, her opinions as valuable as
yours.”

He sighed like only a long suffering male
could. “I’ll try.”

“Maybe you should send some flowers first.”
Sierra remembered there was no flower shop. “Why don’t you go to
the greenhouse and pick her a bouquet before you see her again.” He
just nodded, at least he was listening now.

Once Darius was gone, she called Nioma to see
if she had any results on Hades blood tests yet. “Hey, Nioma, this
is Sierra.”

“I’ll tell you what I told you five minutes
ago.”

“It’s just been five minutes? I would swear
it’s been longer.”

“It hasn’t. Why don’t we meet for lunch? I’ll
have all the results by then.”

“Okay, we’ll meet in my office, yours smells
funny.”

“All labs smell like disinfectant.”

“That’s why we’re meeting in my office.”

“Okay, see you in about an hour.”

Sierra thought again about what the results
might be and what they might mean. As soon as she had heard about
what Hades had done or allegedly done, she had thought something
was just not right about it. The clip she had seen had seemed off
somehow. Her instincts had immediately rejected what her eyes had
seen. She hadn’t followed up on her feelings and now she regretted
it. She didn’t want to be a busybody but it was her sister she was
talking about. She finally sent the video to an expert and was
waiting for those results too. They would be coming in soon and she
would know what had happened before Doc got back.

Her computer went ding so she checked her
email finding the results from the analysis of the video. She felt
her heart race, it was faked. Hades hadn’t slept with Dee or at
least not on the video. Why would someone fake such a thing? The
video was actually of Dee fucking one of Killer’s guys before it
was altered by putting Hades’s face on his body. Killer was the
nickname of Sierra’s ex lover who had been brought in after they
had liberated the gods to be in charge of a US military presence at
Olympus. Doc was going to go crazy when she heard. Why hadn’t Hades
denied being with the bitch?

Nioma’s results no longer mattered but Sierra
decided to have lunch with her anyway. She picked up the phone
ordering lunch for the two of them. It should arrive about the time
Nioma did or sooner. The food came first, Nioma came right after
that. She seemed tense but excited about what she had to say. She
sat down, but she didn’t even look at her food.

“What I found is monumental and will impact
gods and demons alike.”

“Was it something that interferes with the
mating instincts?” Sierra asked, surprised since she didn’t believe
Hades had been with another female at all so the drug must not have
worked.

“Hades was drugged with something I don’t
recognize. I don’t have enough isolated to figure out exactly what
it is.”

“What does it do?”

“All I can guess is that it interferes or at
least is intended to interfere with the mating chemicals released
into a god’s system when they meet their mate. I’m not sure about
demons because none have met their mate yet.”

“That may change soon, Mullen seems to think
the lady who we brought in for laundry is his mate. He met her the
night of the ball, but he wasn’t sure. You might want to test him
and her.”

“I do want to test them, this could mean a
lot to the demons.”

Long after Nioma left, Sierra thought about
what all this new information would mean. Hades relationship with
Doc might heal if he didn’t hold her recent behavior against her.
Men being men, he probably would have to deal with his wounded
pride which might be worse since he was a god. Doc had, after all,
dated two men after she thought he had been with Dee. Doc had
probably been effected the most by their dad’s womanizing because
her mother had been so bitter and had even prevented them from
spending time together until Doc was a teenager.

She felt hands come up covering her eyes as a
hard warm body leaned against her back. “Guess who?”

“It better be Zeus unless someone wants to
die.”

“Best answer you could give,” Zeus said with
a chuckle as his hands moved to her shoulder to turn her where she
was facing him before he kissed her. The electricity still zinged
between them as it had since the first time they’d touched.

She sank into the comfort of his body,
inhaled the familiar exciting scent that was all his, and stroked
his warm skin noting with a smile that his temperature was rising.
She nibbled his lower lip then worked her way down his neck. “Now,
I need you now.”

“I already locked the door.”

“So sure of an eager greeting were you?” she
teased him.

“Never certain, but always hopeful,” he
replied as he started using his hands and his mouth to make sure
she wouldn’t change her mind. His fellow gods always commented on
how much he’d changed, but he didn’t think so. He’d just given
Sierra a part of himself no one else ever knew existed. She came
first with him equaled only by Athena, the little goddess that they
had created together. He hoped every god and demon would someday
have what he had, love, companionship, and a family to make them
complete.

He stepped back stripping down to his
birthday suit as his mate removed her own clothing.
Damn, she
was beautiful!
Never in his life, until he had met her, did he
think he would ever be so blessed. Now, he just wanted to be
deserving of such a wonderful gift. He waited a second, just
watching as her body was exposed to his gaze. He felt his cock grow
harder so he pulled her to him.

“I need to sink my cock deep inside you. I
can’t wait any longer or I’ll explode!”

“Yes, take me now.”

He needed no further encouragement as he laid
her on the desk spreading her legs, lining up their bodies, and
sinking in to her hot, wet depths. He groaned loud and long, her
welcoming muscles squeezed his shaft as he paused enjoying the way
she gripped him. He started slow but lost all control, in no time
he was slamming in and out of her needy sheath so close to coming
he hurt.

“I need to cum so bad,” she whispered to him.
He slid his hand between their bodies and circled her clit with his
finger. He was on the edge so close to losing it so he pinched her
clit sending her over. She screamed his name so loud he was sure
even the demons on the lower floors could hear and he smiled at the
thought of how jealous they would be. One, two, and three pushes
into his mate before he shot his hot heavy load deep inside her. He
felt good all over, his body buzzed with electricity and his mate
seemed happy too.