Until Death

Until Death Tempting the Fates Book Three Alice Wilde E-book Edition | Until Death by Alice Wilde ©2023 Alice Wilde All rights reserved. This book or parts thereof may not be reproduced in any form, stored in any retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means–electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or otherwise—without prior written permission from the publisher, except in case of including brief passages for use in a review. This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, organizations, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. For permissions contact: [email protected] Ebook ASIN: B0C1DQNLT4 Contents Content Warning 1. Death 2. Hazel 3. Hazel 4. Eros 5. Hazel 6. Hades 7. Death 8. Hazel 9. Hazel 10. Hades 11. Eros 12. Hazel 13. Hazel 14. Death 15. Hazel 16. Hazel 17. Cerberus 18. Hazel 19. Cerberus 20. Hazel 21. Hazel 22. Hazel 23. Hazel 24. Eros 25. Hazel 26. Cerberus 27. Hazel 28. Death 29. Hazel 30. Hazel 31. Death 32. Hazel 33. Death Thank You Also by Alice Wilde About the Author To love until Death do us part. Content Warning Dear Reader, Thank you for picking up Until Death, book three in Tempting the Fates. This is a dark, plot-heavy fantasy romance with multiple love interests. Each book will end on a cliffhanger until the series is complete. Please be aware that this series may not be suitable for all audiences, and it is certainly not for all ages. If you choose to continue, be prepared to encounter some language, mental/physical abuse, murder, suicidal thoughts, kidnapping, violent behaviors, the mention of non-con and attempted non-con (not by the love interests), death, violence, choking, voyeurism, mutilation, monsters, gods, revenge, redemption, heartbreak, and descriptions that may otherwise trigger you. However, you will also find a great deal of wonderful and strange characters as well as angst, slow burn romance and eventual spice (this is not a fade to black series), and a cast of characters that is met and built slowly over the course of the story. This series is also multiple POV, so please be aware that some chapters may overlap slightly. All this being said, there may be other triggers within the series that I have not listed. The journey will not be an easy one for our characters, but it’ll be worth it in the end. Or so one can hope. Shall we begin … Tempting the Fates? Alice 1 Death My hands clench into fists at my sides. Pain unlike anything I have ever known claws its way through my chest, threatening to destroy my will to stay where I am. To obey Hazel’s command, despite knowing that my very existence means nothing without her by my side. My shadows crash around me, unable to hide the tempest raging within my soul as all I ever wanted leaves me behind. But I stand my ground. I will not go after Eros and Hazel, not before I have evidence of my innocence. No matter how great my desire is to take her from him and into my own arms once again. No matter how much it feels like my heart is being torn from me with each added step between us. No, I will not go after her again until I can prove myself to her. Until she can be made certain that nothing will come between us again. That I will stop at nothing to prove that my love for her is true. I let out a ragged breath as I swallow the agony at the back of my throat and turn to look toward the gate and the souls beyond. Though my eyes move over them, my thoughts remain fixed on Hazel. She was right about one thing; her father should not be here. At least, not so soon. Perhaps it is for this reason why I let her leave with Eros in the first place. Our deal should have protected him from dying for at least one moon cycle, even if his treacherous wife poisoned him again. Hazel’s sacrifice, her strength poured into him, should have been enough to temporarily sustain him against something so trivial. Unless, it was not mere poison that killed him. Stepping toward the gate, I watch the wandering souls beyond, and several turn to blink blearily at me. Just as quickly, their interest wanes and they turn away as if they can sense that I am not the keeper of this gate. I furrow my brow in thought at this. Though they can obviously sense my presence, they do not otherwise react to it. There is no fear, no desperation, no emotion at all … not a living body remains among them. Never, in all my existence, have I seen anything like this. Unless a catastrophe has beset the mortal realm, most should still have some connection to their former selves. And yet, these souls do not. My jaw hardens as my eyes narrow on the crowd. There is something far more sinister at work here than I thought, and I fear this is just the beginning. Shifting my attention away from the wandering souls, my gaze locks on Hazel’s father. “You,” I say, closing the distance between us, “tell me, what happened to you?” The man’s eyes are hollow and lifeless as he looks up at me. Slowly his head tilts to one side, but he remains quiet. “How is it that you came to be here?” I press. “Here,” Hazel’s father repeats, the word a garbled mess as it pushes past his lips. He blinks once, his head lolling to one side as he eyes roll in their sockets. I let out deep sigh of frustration. There is little point to questioning a man with no answers to give. Hazel’s father has no idea where he is, let alone what happened to him. He