Chapter 79

Hades' POV~

"Gisele!" I shot to her direction, feeling a sharp, piercing pain shooting through a dozen places on my back.

She opened her eyes, those electric blue eyes that drove me insane, and peered up at me. Her pupils dilated at my sight before the rest of her eyes followed. She gasped, finally grasping the situation, fear replacing the brief mirth in her face.

I hated it, but the fact that all her emotions circled around me made me feel a strange kind of satisfaction.

"Hades!" She cried, trying to peek at my back, but I kept a firm grip on her arms, stopping her from seeing it. "What did you do?"

"I'm fine," I said, my tone strained.

"No. No, let me see-"

"Stop." I restrained her, palming her beautiful face. "Look at me. Say those words again."

"What words..." She ran her frantic gaze all over me, tears staining her unblemished cheeks, her breaths coming out in short pants. She looked lost like she was on the verge of having a panic attack. But then she stopped, really look