Persephone

56. Ice Plant ✔

Hades

I come to and my chest hurts like hell, I look down at my chest and the blade is still in my chest. I groan, I try ad move my arms, but they are tied to my sides. I look around and I'm in one of my castle dungeons. I curse, this is the last time I expected myself to be.

"Wakey, wakey, Hadesy,"

"Minthe, you don't have to do this," I croak out.

Minthe comes into full view in front of me, she still looked as beautiful as ever, with red hair, a small petite frame and cute little freckles that decorated her nose and cheeks, emerald, green eyes.

"Where is our baby?"

"Getting straight to the point," she says, "Well if you must know, she is safe."

I try to set myself free, but I can't and that only weakens me, she must have laced the blade with poison.

"Don't fight it Hades, you'll just wear yourself out."

Everything is starting to hurt and I'm losing blood and time.

"What do you want?"

Minthe walks towards me and pulls the blade out of my chest, I howl in pain. My wound slowly closes up, but the poison is still flowing in my veins.

"I'm going to enjoy watching you suffer," she chuckles evilly.

I gulp, "Minthe, I'm sorry okay, for everything."

She scoffs, "I don't want your apology, Hades. I want to see you suffer."

"Minthe, please." I coughed out.

She laughs, "Oh and the king of hell begs for mercy."

She walks behind, grabs me by my hair and tilts my head back, "You are pathetic."

She runs her blade across my neck, and I hiss when it slices my flesh.

"I loved you Hades, with everything I had, and you threw it all away for a weak little bitch who is clueless about this damn place. She wasn't there when they handed you this realm and made it the place it is today, I was."

I gulped, she was right, she was there, from the dawn of time until I hurt her. I didn't even care to think about what would happen to her, or where she would sleep, I just threw her out.

"I know and I am so sorry Minthe, you didn't deserve that. I want to make things right."

She releases my head.

"Just please give me my baby back and I'll give you anything you want."

She stands in front of me, and her eyebrow rises, "Anything?"

I nod, "Yes anything."

She smirks, "Now we are getting somewhere."

I was buying time. I wasn't planning on giving her anything. I knew that if I stalled long enough, Persephone would show up and murder her, I hope.

Minthe's green eyes sparkled with excitement but there was something familiar about them, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.

She still looked as beautiful as ever, with her slim, petite body, and long red hair but she didn't come close to my beautiful queen.

"You know Hades, y did try to use less aggressive means of communication,"

"What do you mean?"

"The night twins," she says in a duh tone.

I chuckled, "That's what you get for sending a bunch of amateurs."

She laughs, "I take full responsibility for that one but back to the matter at hand."

She seductively sways her hips, and walks toward me and sits on my lap. Still the Ol' seductress, that's probably, how she got those two idiots to do her bidding.

She puts her arms over my shoulders with her still in her hand. She knew that I was powerless and that if Persephone walked in her, it would make her mad.

"I want your throne Hades, just like you promised me."

I shake my head, "You know I can't do that."

I feel her cold blade touching the back of my neck.

I let out a shaky breath, "Minthe, come on, be reasonable."

"Is that fear I smell Hades? The king of hell is scared, you are just full of surprises today.

"I'm not scared."

"Ha, yeah right Hades. It's simple, you and your wife just hand over the kingdom and I'll give you your precious baby."

"It's not that simple Minthe. I am tied and bound to this place, and so is Persephone."

Which was a lie.

She gets up from my lap and places a spell on the blade, and she places it on my cheek, and it burns my flesh, I hold back my scream and I just grunt in pain.

"Call your father and organize it," she says as she presses the knife harder onto my face

I scream in pain, "He wouldn't just give it to you, it doesn't work like that."

She pulls the knife away from my face and lets out a frustrated scream, and she throws the knife at me, but I duck, and it misses my head by an inch.

"Excuses, excuses, excuses!" she yells, "That's all you're giving me."

Persephone, where are you?

"How many times do I have to apologize Minthe," I yell, "I loved you, yes, what I did was wrong, yes and I am sorry."

She let out another frustrated scream, "I can't believe this. I even turned into a human for you. All those times we fucked in your office. I –

"What are you talking about? We never fucked in my office –

Minthe transform in front of me and turns into my assistant, Gracie. I feel sick to my stomach.

"You are disgusting." I spit.

"You weren't saying that when you were fucking me senseless, while you were moaning my name," she smirks as she walks toward me.

At this point I am seething with rage, I wanted to kill her. Mostly out of guilt because I continued to fuck her even after Persephone and I met but I stopped it before we got married.

"You are going to regret this Minthe!"

There is a loud bang and the left side of the wall crumbles, and I fall over from the force of the explosion.

The dust settles and there she was my beautiful angry queen.

"Minthe, I want your head," her distorted voice yells.

I cough, "Persephone."

I see her head snap in my direction, and she walks toward me. She looks at me with her dark eyes and anger written all over her face.

"I will deal with you later."

She lifts me using her telekinesis and she throws me out of the room, I hit several walls and once I'm free from my chains, I fall to the ground. I groan and I slowly get up from the ground, I pull out a bottle of a healing elixir and drink it and make my way back to Persephone.