Lust For Me, Daddy's Good Girl novel Chapter 49

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The man they all went out, betongs to you

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The man they all want already belongs to you

Violet

I didn’t understand what was going on, but if Sierra was the way to some of the answers I’d been desperately searching for, then I was going to take it.

She looked at me like I was already caught in her mousetra, a little toy trapped in her cage, and she intended to have all the fun she wanted before letting me out. Her smile was wicked, and it made my palms damp.

I swallowed hard. “You said you and Hades were cousins, but then you said it was complicated.”

For a moment, her expression froze, then melted into a grim. “Ah. That was not what I expected as your first question,” she murmured, amused, “but still not bad.”

She crossed her arms, shifting her weight in a way that made her look both intimidating and effortlessly beautiful. “To answer your question, I am his cousin but from his mother’s side. Our family is a pretty complicated family. My mother is his mother’s sister. Technically, that makes her my aunt, and him my cousin.”

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“But,” Sierra continued, “when my grandfather disowned his mother, we were told not to call her aunt anymore, and to have nothing to do with her or her sons. They wanted us to pretend they didn’t exist.” She shrugged as if it were nothing. “But I’m not the type to follow rules like that. So even though our families aren’t close, I still call him cousin. To me, he’s like an older brother.”

My head spun. There was so much packed into that one answer that I didn’t even know what to digest first.

The fact that Hades was really her cousin, or the fact that his own family had cut off his mother?

Something inside me twisted at the thought. What must his mother have gone through, being rejected by her own family like that? And what must Hades have felt, growing up knowing that the other side of his family hated both him and his mother?

“You look like you feel bad for them,” Sierra said suddenly pulling me from my spiraling thoughts.

I glanced up at her, startled.

She tilted her head. “How unexpected, you must be a kind person, very different from most women I’ve seen him with. Her lips twitched into something that wasn’t quite a smile. “He’s insane, you know. So he mostly surrounds himself with people like him. No wonder he’s obsessed with you. Men like him tend to become addicted to things that are pure and out of reach.”

Her words echoed in my ears, and I wasn’t sure whether to feel flattered, or uneasy.

Still, her answer only made me more curious.

I licked my lips and asked another question. “Then… what words would you use to describe Hades?”

It was a question I’d asked Alec once before, and he’d told me that Hades could be many things, it all depended on who the person was to him. Now, I wondered what his cousin saw when she looked at him.

Sierra’s brow lifted, and for the first time, she looked as though she had been expecting a different question entirely.

She tilted her head, her sharp blue eyes studying me like I was some kind of puzzle she was trying to solve. Then, with a shrug, she said, “Well, it depends on who you are to him.”

They were the exact same words Alec had used. But I could see it in her expression, there was a but coming.

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The man they all wont already belongs to you

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And I was right.

“But,” she continued, “a lot of people call him a devil. Even my grandfather, the same one who disowned his mother, used to call him that. And yet…” she smirked, “I think some part of him regretted it. Because a devil with a mind like Hades? That’s the kind of devil who could bring in profits even kings would kneel for.”

I leaned in, listening carefully. Her words hooked me, pulling me in deeper. I didn’t know why, but I wanted to know. Maybe because, except for the very first time we met when Hades humiliated Matthew and put him in his place, I had rarely seen the side of him that others feared. Around me, he was always playful, and flirty. But what was he really like when he showed the side of himself?

Sierra must’ve seen the interest burning in my eyes, because she kept going.

“Hades is the only man I know who would put his entire company on the line, just for the thrill of it, and if it was something he wanted badly enough.”

My eyes widened. “He’d actually do that?”

Her lips curled, clearly enjoying my reaction. “Oh, the funniest part is, he always wins every single time. And all those so–called powerful people you read about? Half of them owe him one thing or another. They know he’s not the type of man you make deals with.” She leaned in slightly, lowering her voice. “And yet they still do. Because he can give them something no one else can. That’s how he is.”

I realized she was saying more than I’d asked for, but I didn’t dare interrupt her. I just listened, letting every word sink in.

Finally, Sierra caught herself, a chuckle escaping her lips. “Oh dear, I was talking too much again. You asked me who Hades was, right?” Her eyes gleamed as she straightened, arms crossing loosely over her chest. “Well, I’ll say this, I agree with them. Hades is a devil. A man everyone should be careful with.”

A small shiver ran through me, but she added, “But only the devil would burn the world for one person.”

Why was Sierra looking at me like that when she spoke?

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