Poised; - To be ready and prepared to do something. ********** "I'm not that sure you're able to deny what we have, baby-girl." He leaned his face in and teased her with his lips playing on hers softly. "You're an asshole, you know that?" Pierce glared, speaking softly but not moving away, wanting to kiss him. "Yet, you want to kiss me." Xavier's lips were prancing on hers, lightly. "Fuck you." And their lips? they finally connected. Passion. Lust. Confusion. Want. Need. And something unidentified by either of them. ********** The bad boy makes a bet. His biggest addiction, Or Her The reality is she's just an average girl with good grades, but she'll shake your whole world like she did his. What happens when she's all he desires? They'll both show each-other what it's really like to live. ********** Xavier took in Pierce's sleeping form. Gently, he caressed her face. "What exactly are you doing to me, Pierce Montgomery?" Xavier sighed against the nape of her neck. He groaned planting feather-light kisses on her face.

"Y-you," she stuttered, staring at the handsome man sitting on the sleek black throne, "you're..." He rolled his eyes, waving his hand impatiently and said, "Hades. Come on, say it with me. Ha-des." "Hades," Ariel breathed out, still not believing the sight before her. Every picture she had seen of the gods had not depicted Hades' beauty. The god sitting before her was not a crusty old man with a white beard; no, he was a Calvin Klein model. "Yes," Hades clasped his hands together and grimaced, "the God of Death and riches; that's me." Ariel nodded, still refusing to believe but knowing she had to and Hades' grimace turned even bitter, "And you, darling, will be staying with me for quite some time." ~*~ Cover: _nymphomaniac Published: 8/6/14