Chapter 59

"You lied." Hades glared at me walking into the waiting room.

"I did."

"Do you have the slightest idea what it could do to you if the lie was any more graver?"

"More pain?" I counter-questioned, swallowing down the incessant ache that spread throughout my veins and tortured without a pause. Though it was mild, it still hurt.

"It could fucking kill you!" He shot towards me, growling at my face as if that was the most aggravating thing to even think about in his mind.

A warm sensation swept over me.

"You would be spared of me then," I whispered.

The skin between his brows creased infinitesimally in displeasure. "I can say the same thing about you."

Being spared of him? By letting him be framed wrongly? Maybe even taken down? I wasn't that kind of a person. And... deep down, crazily enough, I didn't wanna be spared from him. I couldn't even stand the thought.

"I couldn't let you be punished for something you didn't do."

"Can you say you don't have your doubts?" he challenged. He