Chapter 27

I woke up for the second time; it feels like I have slept for hours.
I open my eyes, and notice that no one is in the room with me.
Now that I am alone, I step away from the bed. I have a chance to explore the room, and hopefully escape. I attempt the door and am a mixture of surprise and relief to find it open. Before leaving the room, I attempt to find my party dress. I am pissed when I find it torn to shreds! That dress cost me ten thousand dollars! I will have to buy a brand-new dress.
I open a different door and find a wardrobe. Inside are rows of beautiful dresses. Some look ancient, like the Greek myths, some look more modern. I choose a emerald, green dress with lace sleeves and a sweetheart neckline that reaches towards my knees. My black heeled shoes from last night have survived and would go perfect with the dress.
Once I am fully presentable, I creep away from the room. I look down the hallways, and oddly I feel as if I know this passage. Something in me is telling me that if I turn right, I will find the exit. I follow my instinct and find an exit. I nearly shriek but I bite my tongue when I feel scorching heat and see a window that shows rivers of fire and lava. Oh my God! Am I in a volcano! How in the fuck am I not burning alive?! My mind is sent into sheer terror when I begin to hear agonizing screams. They sound like they are coming from inside the lava. The screams were almost deafening. I cringe away from the windows, as I run down another hallway. Not a volcano! NO! so much worse, I realize, I am in Hell, literally!
I turn down another hallway, hoping that I am in the clear.
“Hello darling” I hear his voice, I feel his arm snake around my waist, and his breath on my neck.
“Hades” I whisper.
“If you wanted a tour, just say so” he says with a smirk.
“Hades, I need to leave.” I whisper.
“Never” he growls
“Hades, I do not belong to you, I know you think so. Maybe I was supposed to but, I do not.” He chuckles
“That’s because, you’ve been gone for too long. You were never raised to know you are mine.”
“Hades, I have a career, a life, I do not do relationships. That girl is dead! Never again!”
“I saw what happened to you!”
“how?”
“When you were having a nightmare one time, you dreamed it! That never would have happened if your bitch queen of a mother did not defy the gods and keep you away from me! You were meant to rule by my side!”
“Now, I rule my own world, this one is not mine!” I argued back
“No!” he roared and scared the shit out of me
“If you are so sure, why do I sense your Pegra is trying to overpower you? She is tired of your shutting her out, pushing her down, and blocking out who you are!”
He growled at me. I shook my head and ran from him. He reappeared in front of me with a smirk. I attempted to run again down a different hallway, only to face him again. “I am starting to get pissed off Velaria!” He said glaring at me.
“Fuck you!”
“Gladly, all night long darling”
“In your dreams” I shout as I shove him away to his shock. I shouted as I ran towards a window and broke through.
“NO!!” He roared as he lunged towards me and grabbed me before I accidentally fell. We rolled on to a terrace overlooking the lava. He grabbed me firmly and suddenly flew with me in the air. I screamed as I looked down and saw people in the fiery lava being burned alive but not dying. So, this is Hell? Unending torture? Fuck! I never want to be here in those pits!
We landed on a bridge, next to a lake that had floating bodies in it. I clung to him in terror.
“This is the lake of the dead, all souls come to Karan for ferry towards the underworld. Those who are worthy will go to paradise, those who are unworthy of paradise come to me.” I watched the dead float through the water.
As he is distracted, I shove him in the lake, and take off running. I find a man looking old, withered, and cloaked in front of me. I am scared shitless.
“The living do not belong here” The old man says
“Help me escape!”
“VELARIA!!!!” Hades roars louder than I had ever heard. I saw him fighting to swim to the surface as the souls were still trying to pull him down.
“Please Karan, Help me!”
“Are you, his prisoner?” Hades continues to growl and fight towards the surface.
“Yes! He is claiming! I have a mortal life! I want to go home.”
“Be gone! Come again only if he collects you when you are dead. Do not die of brokenness like Persephonie”
“Thank you” I say with tears in my eyes.
He bows his head, then shoves me into the dark sky. I scream as I feel myself launched into the darkness of the air. Hades breaks through the lake of souls and screams in fury as I am soaring far from him. He flies towards me. I scream as I try my best to fly away from him. Suddenly. I find myself back in the earthly world. I am soaring out of a cave. I look down as I start to fall to earth. I scream for a second before landing on the ground. I see fire inside the cave, and I know he is coming after me. I run from the cave as fast as I can. I am overjoyed when I find a human city and I run straight towards it.
“Velaria! I will find you! You cannot escape me!” I heard him shout.
I continue to run, until I feel secure that he is no longer able to stop me. I see him on the hill like he cannot venture into the area. I am baffled by the until I see the welcome sign “Welcome to Los Angeles, California.” Yesterday I was in Athens Greece, now I have found my way back to the United States through going to Hell. He can no longer come near me. I’m now away from his domain. All he can do is watch as I walk away from him again, for the final time. I smirk, flip him off and walk towards my life that I want.

Escaping the Alpha
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