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flashed like blue flame, and his jaw clenched in anger.
    “You. Sit. Down.” He pointed his finger at Kat. “And be quiet for ten minutes, at least.”
    She could tell he was teetering on an edge, and she wasn’t sure if she really wanted to see him fall off it. She couldn’t predict what he would do, and that unnerved her a little. Enough so that she sat without another word.
    The teapot whistled. Hades took the kettle and poured three cups of tea. He set them on the table; one for each of them.
    Looking only at the table, Leucothea cradled her cup in her hands and took a dainty sip. Kat followed her lead and drank. The hot, honeyed liquid warmed her instantly. She risked glancing up at Hades. He was drinking his tea, watching her over the rim.
    “There. Is everyone calm now?” he asked snidely.

    “Yeah, I guess,” Kat conceded, not wanted to admit that she missed and needed Hades’
    levelheadedness.
    “We will have our tea and then decide what to do about the situation.”
    Kat downed the rest of her tea in one gulp. “I’m taking Thea back to Atlantis, is what!” She slammed the cup onto the table.
    “I’m not going back. And you can’t make me.”
    “I can, and I will.”
    Leucothea pushed back her chair and stood. “You know, you were a lot nicer to me when we were sleeping together.” With that, she wrapped the blanket around her shoulders, shuffled into Hades’ bedroom, and shut the door behind her.
    Kat closed her eyes and let her head fall back in defeat. She was hoping that would never have come up. That Hades would never know. Damn Leucothea for bringing it into the conversation.
    And damn me for letting that one night happen.
    Kat opened her eyes when she heard Hades push back his chair. She knew even before she looked that he was staring at her. Probably trying to figure out why he ever loved her.
    Except, when she did glance at him, he wasn’t glaring at her as she thought but was glaring at his hands folded calmly in his lap. “I don’t want to ask, Kat. I really don’t.”
    “It was one night.”
    He looked up at her then, and she witnessed a cascade of emotions in his eyes. The anger she could handle. It was the disappointment and betrayal she saw there that clenched her heart in a viselike icy grip.
    “She’s so young and totally in awe of you, Kat. She would do anything for you.”
    Kat put up her hand in defense. “Whoa, it wasn’t like that. I would never force her into anything.
    What the fuck do you take me for?”
    “Then what was it like?” He stared at her, into her, as if he was searching for the answers in her soul.
    Kat could’ve told him to stop wasting his time. Her soul was long gone.
    Sighing, she lowered her gaze and set her hands on the table. “When the hungers came, I was usually prepared. I’d dealt with them before. Using Nemo’s meditation techniques, I was able to keep them in check.” She leaned forward in her chair and rubbed her hands over her face. “One night everything changed. The hunger was so intense I could barely function. I remember barricading myself in my hut and crawling around on the floor screaming and yanking out my hair. The next thing I knew, Thea was there stroking my face with a wet cloth.”
    Kat closed her eyes and flashes of that night popped in her mind. She tried to push them away.
    Not because she was ashamed of that night of extreme passion, but because the clawing hunger inside tried to push to the surface once more, urging her to take without thought.
    “I tried to push her away. Told her to run. But she wouldn’t go, wouldn’t leave me to deal with it on my own.” Kat sighed and leaned back in her chair. “And I’m sorry, Hades, but I’m glad she didn’t leave. I needed her that night. I wouldn’t have made it with my mind intact if she hadn’t been there to give me release.”
    Hades stood and turned away from her to brace himself against the counter. She watched his back, the way his shoulders tightened,