I spent the entire night regretting my own stupidity. The realization came sometime around midnight.
Right after I had watched Alpha Hades walk away.
After I had told him the kiss was a mistake.
A mistake.
The word alone made me want to bury my face in a pillow and never emerge again because I had lied. The kiss never felt like a mistake.
Not then, not even now. Not when every time I closed my eyes and remembered exactly how his hand had felt against my face, how his lips felt on mine. I would give anything to experience it again.
I remembered the way he'd looked at me beneath the moonlight. His gaze was softer than I had ever seen it. He wanted that kiss as much as I did.
I remembered the look of disappointment on his face before he hid it and walked away.
"You are an idiot."
The words escaped my lips. The empty room offered no argument which was unfortunate because I desperately needed someone to tell me I wasn't.
