Violet

“I’ll give you anything you want if you sleep with me and become my sugar baby.”

That was exactly how I’d expected this conversation to go today.

I mean, with Hades, you had to be prepared for anything. He was unpredictable. But of all the things he could have said, of all the games he could have played, never in my wildest nightmares would I have expected him to look me in the eye and say, marry me.

What the hell was this? A joke? A prank? Some twisted way to humiliate me?

My brain blanked. My mouth hung open. I just sat there staring at him, frozen, with...