Page 5 of To Hades & Back
The club wasn’t too far from where I stayed, which I appreciated. Hera told me to valet my vehicle and tell the bouncer my name at the door. There was a very long line when I pulled into the valet line in front of the club. From the onlooker’s faces, they probably thought a man would climb out of my big boy, black-on-black, tinted out Silverado. Nope, it was thick, lil ole me. All five feet, six inches of me.
“Damn, lil baby. That’s a big boy right there. You ridin in yo’ nigga’s truck tonight?” the bouncer asked when I walked up to the ropes.
My blushing, flirtatious smile arrived to the chat. “That’s all me. What can I say.” I moved into his personal space. “I guess I like big things. I should be on the list, J-Elle Copeland.”
His eyes filled with lust as he unashamedly grabbed his crotch. “Fuck, baby. I got something big for you. Make sure I see you before you leave.”
He moved the rope to let me in without looking at the list to verify if I was on it. Hera texted me where they were in the club. She said I should see them from the door since their section was elevated. I stood still for a second to look at all of the sections. She was right. I saw her almost immediately. I moved that way with purpose, but that didn’t stop men from pulling at me. That was why I didn’t like going out.
“Jin’jer Elle!”Welp, it’s clear Hera already had some drinks.She was overly excited to see me walk up to the section. Plus, she called me by my whole damn name.
I walked in after the rope was moved out of the way. “Hey, Hera. You seem spirited.”
She giggled then gave me a big hug. “Come on, let me introduce you to everyone.” She grabbed my hand and pulled meover to where a group of whom I assumed were her family sat. “Y’all, this is Jin’jer Elle.” She pointed to a couple on the couch then said, “This is my brother Zeus and his wife, Dindi. Dindi is deaf.”
I nodded before I signed hello to Dindi. When she asked me where I learned to sign, I told her that I learned sign language in college. It was offered as a second language course, so I took it.
“Ok, ok, enough of that,” Hera said as she pulled me along. “This is my brother Poseidon and his wife, Melody. Melody and Dindi are best friends and cousins. You know Hestia.” She pulled me over to where a man leaned against the railing. “This is my brother Hades. He’s single but a ho.”
Well damn.“That’s what we’re doing, Hera? Alítheia tha me váleis éxo étsi brostá tis? (You’re really going to put me out there like that in front of her)”
I had no idea what he said, but it was sexy. I’d heard Hera and Hestia speak Greek, but when her brother did it, it hit differently. I watched them have a full conversation in their native tongue. My head ping ponged between the two with confusion written all over my face.
“Hera, go sit your drunk ass down,” her brother Hades said. He dismissed her then turned his body to face mine. “Now, did she say your name was ginger ale?”
I tittered. “Yes, but it’s spelled differently. Most people just call me J-Elle,” I told him. I spelled my name for him when he asked.
He took a sip from the beer bottle in his hand without breaking eye contact with me. When it left his lips, he stood there silently still with his eyes on me. I watched his eyes take inventory of my body. “So let me understand. Your parents intentionally named you after a carbonated beverage but said wait! We’re going to spell it uniquely.”
I hated that I let out an unintentional laugh. It wasn’t what he said but how he said it. There was so much concern in his tone. “I guess so. I never really asked for the origin of my name. I’m not sure that I cared enough about it to ask.”
“Yeah, you should have. You need some kind of story to tell people why your parents did that to you. I can help you make one up,” he said with a shrug. “How about we sit down and work on that shit?”
My brow arched. I could tell he wanted to do way more than come up with a name origin story. I considered what Hera said about him being a ho and decided to play a lil cat and mouse game with him. “How about we not right now. It was nice meeting you, Hades.”
I made sure I patted his arm with a smile before I turned on my heels and sashayed my beautiful ass over to the couch that all the girls in the section had taken over. All of the ladies gawked at me when I sat down.Is there something on my face?“What’s wrong?”
Hestia crossed a leg over the other then leaned her forearm on her thigh. “Bitch, what did you say to my brother?” When my face scrunched, she arched a brow. “Nah, his ass is still looking over here at you. My brother has the attention span of a baby squirrel. But he kept his undivided attention on you while y’all were talking.”
“You act like we had a long conversation. He wanted to know the origin of my name. I told him I didn’t know if there was one, so he suggested that I let him help me come up with one, but I declined,” I told them.
Melody laughed. “Oh, that’s why his ass is looking stuck on lost. A female actually declined to spend time with him. It’s not often that he offers his time to females for anything outside of fucking them. You must be special. Let me find out.”
When I glanced over at Hades, he was in fact still staring at me. I couldn’t read his face, although I desperately wanted to. The corners of my lips curved up toward my cheeks at the same time that I sent a flirtatious wink his way. My insides warmed when he returned my wink with one of his own coupled with a lick of his lips.
The bottle girl came over and took our drink orders. I was the only one who didn’t have a drink. After she got our orders, she went over to the couch that all the brothers were now on.
I watched her flirtatious body language as she spoke to Hades. It gavewe have fuckedorare fucking.The bottle girl stepped between Hades’s legs then started to lower herself onto his lap. His eyes locked with mine before his hands gripped the girl’s hips to stop her.Please don’t stop her on my behalf, Mr. Hades.
Man,my sister was shout out for calling me a ho in front of Jin’jer Elle. I couldn’t believe her people really named her that, but that was another subject for another day. When we all got here, we mixed for a little while with the Leotas before we came to our own section. The birthday boys hadn’t arrived yet. Hera said that one of her and Hestia’s coworkers was going to fall through. I didn’t think anything of it. That was until I saw her sexy thick chocolate ass.
I watched my sister introduce her to everyone. What stuck out to me about Jin’jer was that you could tell she knew she was the shit, but she still had a sense of humility about it. Her smile told you that she was a sweet girl, but her walk and hips said she would give you hell if she had to. When I asked her to sit downwith me, I didn’t anticipate her telling me no.Shit, I’ve never had a bitch tell me no.
“You good, baby bro?” Zeus’s question pulled me out of my thoughts. “You’re over there looking at her with stars in your eyes. Let me find out five minutes with her and she got you hypnotized.”
I waved him off. “No one is hypnotized. She’s just interesting.”
Poseidon burst into laughter. “She’s interesting? Yeah, you got to be hypnotized. I’ve never, and I do mean never heard you refer to any female as interesting. Plus, you have yet to make mention of trying to fuck.”
