MEET THE LORDS (II)

"Calm the fuck down. That was just a warning shot. If I wanted him dead, he wouldn't be breathing right now," Hades said, returning his gun back to his waist.

Ares' hand inside of his pocket, folded into a fist.

He was beginning to regret not bringing darling with him.

"I love you, but you're going to pay for these walls," Melissa hissed at Hades.

"You love him?" Valerie scoffed.

"Get your mind off the gutter. She's too desperate for the attention of Nico to want any other man," Zoya clarified.

"I don't like that bitch, but I'm surprised she knows me more than you do," Melissa scoffed at Valerie, who raised her hand up in surrender.

"What's the point in all of this?" Lev the blind bat spoke up for the first time that night.

"I almost thought a cat got your tongue the way it did your eye," Maxsim joked.

"It was a fucking tiger, you fool!" Lev defended himself.