Please me, Stepdaddy
The table went silent for half a second before Hermes laughed properly this time, reaching for his coffee like nothing about that exchange had been remotely unusual.
I studied her now that the initial shock had faded slightly, the precision of her eyeliner, sharp enough to have been drawn with a ruler, the way her fingers rested near the fork like she was still deciding whether she needed it as a utensil or a weapon, the tattoos disappearing under her sleeve, hinting at more ink I couldn't see.
Everything about her radiated a controlled, coiled danger I'd genuinely never encountered this close before, not even from Hermes himself, and he was supposed to be the most dangerous man I knew.
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