Chapter 29

We walk away from the office, and I make the decision there, I am done with running. I really have woken up after my time in the underworld. I was a bitch to Sheamus, and everyone else who just want to show me love and acceptance. I decide to move in with Sheamus. I want to become his Lune. I feel a voice inside of me echoing in the darkness “you’ll never know the power of your Pegasus if you move in with me. Come home my beloved, and I will show you the true power that fills your blood” I shivered at the sound. Something put a mental image in my head not only of what my Pegasus could look like but, Hades wrapping me up in his sheets, screaming my name for eternity. The fire inside of my soul feels like it grows as I think of it. I immediately feel like I am burning with passion but only for him.
I feel like there is something that I need to do. I know Sheamus is going to hate it. I know he’s going to challenge me, and he is going to be broken after I said that I would never leave him again. I feel like I must confront Hades. Find out what he did to me? Discover more about myself. Discover who I am as a shifter, and why he is laying claim on me? He’s been watching over me and following me my entire life but, always bound to the shadows.
As we reach the borderline of Sheamus’s pack, I begin to feel that something is intensely wrong. I don’t think this has anything to do with my leaving Sheamus, something is telling me that Hades is here! I was under the impression that he couldn’t escape Greece. What changed? I feel in in my bones, Hades is here, and he has come for me. He will burn this werewolf world to the ground if he doesn’t have me. I keep getting told this in my head.
Sure enough, we pull up to the packhouse. I scream in horror as he is holding my father by the throat, and fiery blade is drawn right against my fathers neck. I shed tears cause, I know if I don’t go with him, he’ll kill my father.
“Who are you!” Sheamus growls as he shifts. I watch in horror as Hades moves his finger, lifts Sheamus into the air and throws him several yards against a tree. My eyes are wide, and I feel like I cannot scream. I continue to stare at Sheamus who is not moving.
“I am Hades, and Velaria is my destined bride, born to be mated to me and be my queen! I am tired of these games! Velaria, come home with me or watch history repeat itself, and this time, you’re not an infant that was kidnapped and stolen away from me. you’re a grown woman who is fun, beautiful, and can make her own choices, so I suggest you choose!” He growled.
I stared at everyone in grief. My mates family were also held by the point of other fiery blades. My adoptive family were being suppressed by forcefield made of fire. If I didn’t come with him, they all die. If I do come with him, I am just like Persephone. Doomed to live out my days as his queen of the Underworld. I would possibly never see Sheamus, or my family again. He had told me Persephone was killed long ago during a war with the Titans. He said my birth was foretold to him after her death, that I was his true bride and mate not her.
“All this bullshit because of me?! I was a baby; I wasn’t destined for anyone!”
“Yes, you were my beloved, and you know it!” he said in a growl as he used his shadow powers to pull me closer and whisper in my ear. He didn’t hide any display of affection. He skimmed his nose across my neck. There was a black tattoo on the back of my neck that had been there since I was baby. He nuzzled it and licked it. Like proving a point, I shocked myself by letting out a loud moan. He suddenly bit it down on the back of my neck. I shuddered and shrieked like I just had the best orgasm of my life. I felt him speak into my mind “shift.” My body immediately felt like it was a burning inferno. I watched him let go of everyone else. I started to shake and groan. I saw him smiling like he had just won the lottery. He abandoned my friends and family he was threatening as he watched me.
They shrank backwards away from him. My fucking father came forwards and bowed down to him.
“Lord Hades, I have intended to hide, I have been searching years for her. I just found her, what my queen did was vile. You did right to end her but, please spare everyone else. Let me take her and our family home to where we all belong. Needs to be educated about who and what she is. She needs to be taught how to be the queen she is destined to be for you.”
“Will you give me your word, that she will return to me the queen she is destined to be?”
“Oh, great one! I never wanted to defy you, she will be groomed to be your bride, it was written in the stars, it is her destiny that she needs to accept.”
“If this is true, I will grant you passage back to the beginning. If you’re going to do this, I want Velaria as she should be, which means, you are to go back in time with the knowledge you have now, and kill your queen before she can steal my bride away from me.”
I started screaming, as they spoke like I was invisible. “NO!!!”
“Fuck you! Fuck you all! I determine my life! Not you!” I screamed at them. I was burning in agony, trying to block the shift from happening. I could feel the fire surging through my soul. I let you’re a shriek, I starting to feel my body morph like Hades unlocked something in my soul that was trying to break free. I felt my legs elongate. I felt my neck stretching. My face distorted.
“Hades, please do not let her shift here among commoners and freaks. These things are descendant from your hell hounds, now they’re mindless monsters. Let me take her home where she can learn elegance, class, and how to transform into a creature of nobility.” My father pleaded with him. The entire pack roared in rage at my fathers words.
“Very well.” Hades said. I felt the burning subsiding as he whispered in my ear with a kiss “be at peace.” I looked up at him in fear and anger. No one dictates my life; I told him in my thoughts. He smirked at me then smashed his lips to mine. I could not help but moan. I clung to him in support and began to kiss him passionately. He bit my lip wanting access and I gave it to him. I don’t know what was coming over me but, it’s like every time I am around him, I cannot control myself. I opened my eyes, and I saw the Sheamus was beginning to wake up. The look of horror on his face was haunting me. The pain in his eyes seeing me in Hades arms sent agony to my soul. He was beginning to look broken.
Hades stopped kissing me and was stroking my face as he looked at me with love, devotion and longing. As if he was finally getting a prize that he had been waiting eternity for. Which in his case was exactly the truth.