“With you as well. In these palace walls.” I turned and took his hands. “Hades, there is much that I regret of our meeting. Much that has brought me great distress, but I will not leave the Underworld the same soul which arrived. I was a goddess, but you made me a queen. I had power, but you were the one who showed me how to be powerful. Yes, I will leave here, but my time as your wife, in whatever sense we take that word to mean, is carved in the very fibers of my soul. It has shaken my past and woken me to a future otherwise unimaginable. And I have you to thank for that.”
