Page 72 of Guided by the Stars (Creating Destiny #1)

I look around me and I can feel the pain and smell the burning of skin. I hear the screams of people being tortured and creatures laughing. The hellhounds howl close by .

“No, no, please, I...I…I’ll accept what you’re offering. I’m sorry,” I cry out.

Hades bends down. “I rather enjoy the begging, but I think that time down here will break you in nicely, so next time there won’t be hesitation.”

The hellhounds surround me. I put my arms up and start shouting because now I don’t care who hears me. I can’t stay down here for a month, I’ll go mad. I won’t survive this torture.

“Adriane.” I hear Kai’s voice from far away. “Wake up.”

The hellhounds are coming closer and I know Kai won’t get here in time.

Hands grab me and I shoot up. “Calm down Adriane,” Kai says, his forehead creased with worry lines. “You were calling out in your dream, actually more like screaming.” I reach out and smooth his forehead out. I shake my head as I quickly take some calming breaths and wipe my eyes.

“Help me forget, please,” I say, but it’s more of a plea. I just need to erase those nightmares and Hades from my mind.

Kai looks at me, opening his mouth, and I quickly put my hand over it. “I don’t want you to say anything, just make me forget. I have never begged for anything in my life, but I will now.”

I see the conflict in his eyes. I know he isn’t the type to talk about things with people, but I also know that he wants more from me than what he has had with others. Once we leave this place, we can both have that. We can be free of this damned place and his father.

Kai leans me back in the bed and starts trailing kisses down my neck as he lifts my shirt up. “There’s never a need for you to beg, unless it’s begging me not to stop. Your wish is my command. ”

My nipples grow hard once he exposes them to the cold air, and he quickly puts my left nipple in his mouth.

I groan, bringing my legs up and putting one over his shoulder.

He plays with my nipple in his mouth, rolling it between his teeth and it’s a flash of pain, but mostly pleasure.

I let out a loud moan and I feel myself getting soaked.

He quickly does the same thing to my other nipple before he trails his tongue lightly down my stomach and he rips off the boxer briefs. All I know is I want this god inside of me right now.

His tongue hits my soaking pussy, and he moans. “You’re so wet, baby, your taste is one I’ll never forget.” He licks me again and I wiggle closer to him.

“Kai, didn’t they ever teach you not to play with your food?

” I look down at him and he is smirking.

His tongue flicks out, landing on my clit.

I throw my head back in pleasure. It’s like an explosion of white lights surrounding me.

He inserts a finger as he continues to suck and lick at my clit as I move my hips.

I’m panting and I don’t care anymore that he knows I want him.

I know now that Kai has ruined me for everyone else because no matter what, I could never find anyone else to unlock this pleasure inside of me.

I feel the pleasure build and my core is pulsing with need and my legs are shaking. He suddenly stops, and I sit up quickly in bed. I’m not playing these games with him anymore.

He is sitting up and I quickly push him back down.

I know he allows this because he is a god after all, but this is huge and he is allowing me to take control.

His eyes are full of need and want. I quickly pull his dick out of his boxer briefs.

He is hard and I see pre-cum gleaming on the top of his dick.

Quickly bending down I lick it off and take him in my mouth, making sure to get it really wet.

I adjust myself over him, aligning his dick with my pussy.

He is quicker than me. He slams into me so hard that I moan in pleasure.

He is holding my hips as I ride him, looking at me like I’m an angel.

He pulls me down to his chest as I continue to ride him.

He kisses me hard, balling a fist full of my hair and pulling me back up to sit on him as I bounce up and down, his hand never leaving my hair.

The pain and pleasure combination of him pulling my hair is delicious.

After being with him like this, I don’t think I will ever be able to not have both.

He reaches up and wraps his hand around my neck and it pushes me over the edge.

I had been riding that edge and the choking just pushed me over.

It’s like fireworks exploding behind my eyes. Kai’s dick twitches inside of me as he pulls me back onto his chest and kisses me, our tongues dancing so beautifully together.

“You are magnificent,” Kai says as he pulls his lips away from me and brings me closer into him.

We lay all tangled up together with the sheet wrapped around us. I feel content and soon we will all be together away from here and Nora and I will be together again. There is a soft knock on the door and Kai jumps up quickly.

Jax pokes his head in, nodding at Kai and then he leaves. Kai heads to the closet quickly and grabs my bag along with my shoes. “It’s time to go, Skoteino.”

He hands me my shoes, placing the bag beside the bed.

He is pulling out leggings and socks. “This is fast,” I say as I sit up, quickly pulling them on.

I still have his shirt on and I just tie a knot in the back.

After quickly slipping on my socks and shoes, I pull my hair up into a messy bun before I remember the tattoo and take it back down .

“I need you to promise me you’ll stay with Jax and listen to him for your safety. I’ll get you as far as Cerberus, and then Jax will get you out.”

I drop my hands and freeze in horror as I look at him. A range of emotions play on his face. “You’re not coming?” I whisper.

Kai is standing in front of me, holding my face with his hands and I can see it in his eyes, he is fighting with himself.

“I want to, I wish I could, but I can’t.

I have to stay here, otherwise Hades and Zeus would know.

They can feel my presence and power. I have to give you time to get away, and we took something to get you out. ”

I feel tears coming. What is going on with me?

It’s like I can feel my emotions coming back at me twice.

It’s so hard to control myself, but I manage.

I touch his face, trying to memorize it.

“Thank you,” I say because what more can I say to this god who will sacrifice himself to get me to safety?

He isn’t just losing me, but Jax as well and I reach up and kiss him softly.

“You are my knight in dark armour, Kai, and no matter what, I will always hold you here,” I say and place my hand on my heart.

Even though I’m saying goodbye, I can’t bring myself to tell him I love him.

Those words will leave me so broken and I can’t break anymore than I am, or I won’t make it out of here.

Jax is walking in as Kai pulls away from me. Kai raises his hand and there is a dimly glowing gold circle. Kai grabs my hand as we step through it.

We land close to Cerberus, but it’s still a ways away. I know he did it on purpose to give us more time in each other’s presence.

We get closer, and my heart is in my throat.

I should be happy. I am about to walk out of here, back to Earth, the Land of the Living.

I get to see Nora again, leave all the awful shit behind like it didn’t happen.

I won’t be close to Tartarus, but is that what I really want?

I don’t know. I have never been good with showing my emotions or genuine feelings, but last night or whatever the fuck time it was, I let it all out.

I let my guard down and told Kai most of what I’ve been through in my younger years.

My arm brushes against Kai’s and I look over at him.

He keeps checking behind us. Jax is in front, leading the way.

I can hear Cerberus, and I smile and poke Kai in the ribs. “Remember when you were an asshole and didn’t even try to help me cross?”

Kai grabs my hand and pulls me to a stop.

Jax notices and Kai tosses him a helmet.

Jax walks off and sits on a boulder away from us, allowing us a moment alone.

I turn my attention back to Kai. “Am I about to be a doggy chew toy? Or are you going to give me some honey cakes?” I say, trying to make him laugh.

The last few days have changed him. The first time I heard him laugh openly and freely, it shocked me.

It was such a wonderful sound that I always tried to make him laugh.

But I also knew that me making jokes was a coping mechanism I have always had, if I’m nervous about something, I joke or flirt my way out of it.

Fake it till you make it, and it has honestly helped, till now.

Kai pulls me closer and holds my face in his hands, tilting my head up to look at him. I blink a couple times, I have never gotten used to his icy blue-gray eyes. “Stay,” he whispers, so soft I almost think I imagined it. “Stay,” he says again, and I hear him this time.

I pull back from him and grab his hand. “You don’t mean that, Kai,” I whisper.

I look him in his eyes then and fight the burning I feel in my own.

“You don’t even want to be here. After everything you did to get me out and you said because of what I went through…

” I trail off and he is still looking at me as if this is the last time he will lay eyes on me.