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I threw my arm out, searching for the wall, and grasped a hard body.
“Hey, baby.” Alex scooped me squealing into his arms. “What do you say we get out of here?”
My heart jackhammered in my chest. I was smiling so hard, my face hurt. “Let’s do it. I’m over this party anyway.”
Amid the chaos, confusing, and booming shouts of his father, Alex and I slipped out the door, giggling and racing down the hall.
“I choose you,” he said, flinging away my mask. Alex planted such a searing kiss on me, my toes curled. “I always choose you.”
Chapter Fifteen
Grass tickled me with a hundred fingers. I lay out in the cool night, gazing out at the stars, and shivering under every lick, kiss, and touch. Alex had already made love to me three times until I was a hoarse, sweaty mess. I loved that all of me wasn’t enough for him. He wanted more, more, more.
“Whatever that Hades spawn did to shut out my voice, you’re not to go near him again!”
Selene had been ranting and raving since Alex tore off my dress and flung it somewhere in the forest. Whatever that impossible dress was, it granted more than beauty and mesmerization. It also smothered Selene’s voice.
Made sense. It was an object of Elysium Fields where all one’s desires are granted. It was hardly my desire to listen to that witch’s screeching during the most important moment in my relationship with Alex.
I paused with my fingers in his hair. Was it the dress? My true desire was to be with Alex. When he touched my dress, did it fill him with the courage to stand up to his father?
I tossed my head. I didn’t want to know. I wouldn’t question it. In that moment, I was happy. I didn’t need to know how or why.
“What’s wrong?” Alex kissed the valley between my breasts.
“Nothing’s wrong,” I replied, smiling down at him. “How could anything be wrong? I was just thinking, I don’t want there to be any secrets between us.”
He halted in his worshipping of my nipples—lips mid-pucker. “Are there secrets between us?”
“One,” I admitted.
Selene growled. “Don’t you dare—”
“I know what my power is,” I rushed, getting it out before she finished her threat. “I’m a child of fate, Alex. I can go back in time.”
“Wow. Aella, that’s... wow.” He fell quiet.
I sensed his mind racing with the new information, but I couldn’t tell what he was thinking.
“Please, say something.” I stroked his cheek. “Are you mad at me for keeping it secret?”
“What? No.” A smile broke out on his lips. “Course I’m not mad. If there’s any power you should keep secret, it’s that one. History is littered with the tragedies that befell children of the Fates.” He kissed me sweet. “But that won’t be you. I’ll protect you, Aella. Your secret and you. No one will hurt you. No one will use you. I promise.”
“Thank you,” I whispered, eyes filling. “I love you.”
“I love you too.” He cocked his head. “Were you really worried about telling me this?”
“Worried for nothing obviously. Every time I think you couldn’t be any more the best guy I know, you prove me wrong.”
“I’m so happy you feel that way, because I just landed us in trouble I can’t name.” He pressed his forehead against mine. “I don’t know what possessed me to speak to my father like that in front of those people, but his retribution will be swift.”
I shivered. That wasn’t a word someone should use in reference to their own father. “Do you regret—?”
“No,” he said softly, smile still on his mouth. “I don’t regret a word.”
I relaxed. “What can we do? What will he do? Sirena was a willing participant. She ripped that contract to shreds. Your father can’t put this all on you, since neither of you wanted this marriage.”
“True, but both families have wanted this marriage for a long time. Blaming one or both of us doesn’t matter. It only matters that I have not heard the last of this.” He flipped over onto the grass, stretching out next to me.
