The wind of the Flame sent the gods flying through the door to the silver dome, where the Titans had been locked for eons.
Zeus twisted his scepter around, its ends blocking the door frame. His one hand held the center of the scepter and hung on; his other hand seized one side of the doorframe to pull himself out.
“Help me, brother!” Hades shrieked from deep inside the dome.
Poseidon shouted his pleading as well.
A stream of flame shot toward Zeus, and mighty Zeus twisted his neck, lowered his head to duck the fire, and let out an unkingly yelp.
“You’re being naughty, Z,” I said and let the flame sunder his scepter.
“No!” Zeus screamed, and a force pulled him into the dome and dragged him down to its pit.
Then the rest of the Titans and prison guards who had battled us also flew though the door into the pit of the dome, despite their vehement protests.
My enemies were defeated, imprisoned for eternity. Exultation filled me, but only for a moment. What would I do now?
“Cookie?” Axel raised his face, staring at the swirling Flame in alarm, fear lurking in his eyes. He was worried that I’d stay as the Flame forever.
“Rosebud?” Zak approached the Flame. “Come back!”
“You do not bark an order at her,” Paxton hissed beside the sky demigod. “You need to learn how to entice and seduce. That’s the way with a woman.”
Zak stared at him before turning to me and called me urgently, his voice softening. “Rosebud, love? I need you.”
I considered my mates.
Being the Living Flame, I was the ultimate power. I had ultimate freedom. I could go anywhere and roam the universe in a blink of an eye.
I’d flown amid the stars. I had run alongside time.
If my mates’ offers weren’t fascinating enough, I’d stay what I was.
CHAPTER 18
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“Buttercup, please return to us,” Paxton said in his deep, seductive voice. “I haven’t had enough of you.”
Not good enough. He was thinking of his own benefit. But then his touch was electrifying, always sending tingles over my skin. I thought of the hot sex we had in prison and how much more he could give me if he had his full hard length inside me. I might try that at one point.
But now, I remained undecided. Incredible sex shouldn’t be the main factor in a relationship, should it?
“I want to wake up every morning and see you next to me in bed,” the sea demigod continued to entice.
But that might not end well. Axel and Héctor would definitely fight for the hot spot beside me. I hoped that Pax would brace for that for his own good. I already heard Axel’s grunt.
“I’ll send Axel to make coffee and bring donuts for you while we cozy up, basked in sunlight in bed,” Paxton said with a dreamy, goofy smile.
I almost shouted at him that Axel wouldn’t do it, but Paxton snapped his stare at the war demigod. “Will you serve our mate, Axel?”
“As long as Cookie returns to us, I’ll do anything,” Axel said.
Well, that was a new development among them.
“But we’ll need to put things in the schedule, as to cleaning, hunting, putting food on the table for our mate, and sexy time,” Axel added, remaining calculating.
“We’ll figure it out,” Zak added in confidence.