It was before you healed Blue, Alaric went on. Teharon saved your life that day.
Then Hades gasped and his eyes shot open. They had been a dull brown before, but now that brown had gone transparent, and I could see fire burning behind his irises. I blinked in surprise.
“Nyx!” Hades roared. “You traitorous bitch!”
“I guess we didn't need proof, after all,” Re noted dryly.
“I'll tear her throat out with my bare hands,” Hades growled as the ground began to shake. “And then I'll throw her carcass into the Pyriphlegethon.”
“Hades.” Thor took both of Hades' arms in hand. “I need you to get control of yourself. We're with you; all of us want revenge for Persephone. But we can't get that if you kill us first.”
Hades glared at Thor, but then he took a deep breath, and the quaking stopped. He nodded, and Thor released him warily.
“Thank you for bringing this to me,” Hades said sincerely. “I will—”
“Hades!” A blond, statuesque woman strode into the room; pushing past the God Squad.
Three men followed the blond in; one was even larger than Thor, but all of them looked ferocious. They took up a position behind the woman as she confronted Hades.
“Sober up, Hades, we... ” she blinked in shock as she realized that Hades was already sober. “Oh.”
“Demeter,” Hades said crisply, “what are you doing here? And with Froekn?”
“Fenrir.” Thor nodded to the biggest guy in greeting.
“Thunderer,” Fenrir growled back.
Fenrir; the Wolf God. I stared at him; he was starkly handsome and piled with muscles. Wild, dark hair flowed to his shoulders, and a stubborn chin jutted out beneath severe lips. A scar ran down his face—splitting his left eyebrow into two—but it only added to his savage beauty. The men who were with him looked similar enough to be related to him; one, in particular, could have been his brother—he even had the same shade of honey-brown eyes. But the other man had blond hair and icy blue eyes like a husky.
As distracting as Fenrir was, my stare was drawn to the smaller version of him. Something inside my chest was shivering, and I had to stop myself from running to the stranger. He felt my gaze on him and turned sharply; his eyes as intense as a predator on the hunt. But as soon as our gazes locked, his softened, and his lips parted in amazement. He left his post and walked over to me in a daze. I met him halfway.
I knew there was a conversation happening around us, but I couldn't hear it; I was too fascinated by this man. I reached out a hand, and so did he. Our fingers were just inches away from touching when Re broke the spell.
“Vervain?” Re snatched my hand away. “What are you doing?”
“I... ” I blinked, looked up at Re, and then back to the man with the honey eyes. “Honey-Eyes,” I whispered softly.
“Minn Elska,” the man said brokenly as he reached for me.
All conversation stopped as the stranger and I embraced; his lips seeking mine. I met his mouth eagerly as memories burst into my brain; this man circling me, the two of us making vows beneath a full moon, his teeth on my skin—marking me, and a great chasm of love that we both fell into.
“What the fuck is happening right now?” I heard the woman—Demeter—ask.
“I have no idea,” Thor murmured.
“I believe my fiance has found another of her lost husbands,” Re said resignedly.
“Husband?” Honey-Eyes whispered as he pulled away from our kiss. He continued to hold me as he stared down at me in wonder. “Yes; that's it. You're mine; I remember binding our souls. You have a piece of my wolf inside you.” He laid his hand to my sternum and then frowned as he blinked. “Or you should.”
“VéulfR?” Fenrir asked in a deep, rumbling voice that was full of confusion.
“Father, this is my mate, Vervain,” he said.
“Trevor,” I whispered as his name came to me.
“That's what I like to be called,” he said with a smile.
“This is utterly bizarre,” Demeter declared. “Control your wolves, Fenrir.”
“I can't control a mate bond.” Fenrir scowled. “Although, I have no idea when this bond was set.”
“In another time,” I said as I let Trevor go. “Our lives have been changed by a god named Aion so that he could get revenge upon me, and Nyx could get revenge upon Hades.”
“By killing my wife,” Hades concluded with a grim look.
I nodded.
“That's what I was coming to tell you,” Demeter said with a baffled look. “I've been investigating Persephone's murder, and I hired the Froekn to search for any suspicious scents at the scene of the crime. They found one and they tracked it here. It leads to Tartarus, Hades.”
“Where Nyx lives with Erebus,” Hades growled. He set his ferocious stare on Demeter. “We shall have our vengeance, at last, Demeter.”
Demeter smiled viciously. “We need to do this right; Nyx is a formidable opponent.”
“Nyx and Aion,” I reminded her.
“Then we should be doubly careful,” she said. “I'll gather the forces I have available to me.”
“And so shall I,” Hades agreed. “Give me two days and meet me back here with your people.”
“Two days.” Demeter agreed and then strode out of the room.
Fenrir started to leave as well, but then he noticed that his son wasn't going with him. He sighed deeply and turned back around.
“You're staying with her, aren't you?” Fenrir asked Trevor.
“I have to,” Trevor said simply. “She has my heart. If I leave, it will stop beating.”
“Stop being so melodramatic,” the blond man said. “Get her number or something.”
“This isn't a woman I've picked up in a bar, UnnūlfR,” Trevor growled. “This is my mate. I feel
