Hades

Flashback

I didn’t waste time on useless talk. I wasn’t the kind of man who traded words when a fist said the same thing faster. Most of the time, I didn’t even need to get that far, once people found out who I was, their whole posture shifted. The arrogant turned submissive. Usually, I stayed calm, because most people were irrelevant. I never let them get a rise out of me.

But tonight I had to control every fibre of my being to stop myself from destroying everything around me.

My jaw tightened, my gaze dark, as I stood with my arms folded, watching her on the bed. She...