Tessa Young is an 18 year old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.

Carter Pence gives her all. In love, in religion, in family- in motherhood. Perry saw the flower that was she, and craved it's petals. He planted the seed of abuse and a twisted image of love, and it soon grew through her lungs and entangled its way into her heart. Scarring her idea of a relationship. Three years of men just the same, and she is living a life of mental torment and crying into her pillow. Until little Axel came, along. Providing her with the feeling of being needed, and saving her from herself.

"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