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Hades flopped back onto the bed beside his wife, settling into the pillows with a deep, satisfied sigh. He smiled as Persephone rolled towards him, lifting his arm and ducking underneath it to cuddle against his chest, her head settled just below his shoulder. She rubbed across his belly with one small hand before settling, her fingers splayed across his skin.
“Happy anniversary, my love,” Hades said, tilting his head to press a kiss to her hair.
“Three hundred years already,” Persephone mused. He could feel her smile against his chest. “The sex just keeps getting better.”
“Can’t say I’m upset with that,” Hades chuckled, trailing his fingers across her shoulders.
They laid together in the quiet, softly touching, basking in the deep satisfaction that thrummed through them both after several rounds of good sex. Hades was beginning to feel sleepy, his eyes fluttering closed despite his efforts to stay awake, when Persephone spoke again.
“Hades?” she said, a hesitantly curious tone to her voice.
“Hmm?”
“Would you ever… I mean, have you ever considered…” Persephone started, her fingers on his belly tracing anxious patterns. “Shit, nevermind, forget I said anything.”
“No, no, please. You know you can tell me anything,” Hades said, fully awake now and focused on his wife. Abruptly, Persephone sat up and faced him, crossing her legs and settling with her hip pressed to his waist.
“Okay, please don’t take this as me not liking what we do, or in any way being unsatisfied,” Persephone began. Her hands fluttered above her knees before she laid them on her thighs, curling her fingers into her palms. Hades’s heart thunked in his chest, worry clenching at him before he pushed it away, reaching to take Persephone’s hand. She wrapped her fingers around his and held his hand in her lap, stroking the back with her thumb. “I love you so much. I adore you. But lately I’ve gotten to thinking about something else I wanted to try with you. With us.”
Hades raised an eyebrow and squeezed his hand in hers. “A sex thing? Sweetness, we’ve tried so many things, what have you come up with that could be making you this stressed?”
“We haven’t tried this,” Persephone whispered, her tone dropping like she was telling him a secret. “But I’m so nervous to ask.”
“Just go for it,” Hades encouraged, smiling widely up at her. “I’m very intrigued now.”
Persephone took a deep, shuddering breath, and grabbed his other hand. She cradled both of his hands against her body, and smiled shyly.
“I want to have a threesome,” she blurted, her face flushing deeply. She grinned and then bit her lip, anxiety getting the better of her as she worried it between her teeth.
Hades froze, his eyes going wide as a flood of images flashed through his mind. Persephone kissing someone else, her hands twining into their hair as they manhandled her into their lap. Persephone with her face buried between another woman’s thighs while Hades took her from behind. Persephone laid out underneath another man while he fucked her and she writhed and Hades… watched.
Oh gods, but he wanted to watch.
“Hades? Hades, you haven’t said anything,” Persephone said, her voice pitching higher with anxiety. “Please say something.”
“I, uh,” Hades cleared his throat. “I think that would be very entertaining.”
“Really?” Persephone laughed, tension leaking from her shoulders. She leaned towards him slightly. “I honestly didn’t know what you would think about it, you can be a little… possessive sometimes.”
“Oh, just me?” Hades pulled his hands away and sat up, crowding into Persephone’s space so that she had to lean back slightly. He watched her pupils dilate and her breath hitch in her chest as he stopped with his face inches from hers, his arms bracketing her body. “I’m not the only one in this bed with a tendency towards being jealous, oh Queen of mine.”
“Damn right I’m Queen of you,” Persephone snarked, closing the distance between them and kissing him, sucking his bottom lip into her mouth and nibbling. She dipped her tongue into his mouth too briefly and Hades groaned as she pulled away. "So, you didn't look horrified by the thought. Quite the opposite in fact."
"I was considering the logistics," Hades said, leaning back and propping himself up on his forearm. "How it would work, what kinds of things we might get up to."
"To be honest, I hadn't quite gotten past the part where it's just very sexy and the idea drives me kinda wild," Persephone said, grinning.
"Do you have anyone in mind yet?"
"Wait, wait, wait," Persephone said, holding up her hands to stop him. "Are you saying you want to? Really? Like actually give it a try, not just talk about it in the safety of our own bed."
"If you want to, then I want to," Hades said softly. He ran his free hand up her thigh to rest on her waist. Persephone shivered. Hades wasn't sure if it was because of his touch or his words.
"Then I better get to thinking," Persephone purred. She placed her hands on his shoulders and knocked him backwards, climbing over him to straddle his hips. “Gotta ask the right person, you know.”
Hades grinned wolfishly as Persephone descended on him, her teeth grazing the skin of his neck as she twisted her hips against his. This anniversary just kept getting better and better.