A Game of Retribution (Hades Saga, #2)

by Scarlett St. Clair

“I don’t know how to lose someone, Hades.” It was moments like this when he realized that his heart no longer belonged to him. “I know,” he said, taking her face into his hands. “But running from it won’t help, Persephone. You are just delaying the inevitable.” “Hades, please,” she said, desperate, and then whispered, “What if it were me?” No. He released her. “I refuse to entertain such a thought.” “You cannot tell me you wouldn’t break every Divine law in existence for me.” Hades’s power preened at the thought. “Make no mistake, my lady, I would burn this world for you.” He had said it before, but perhaps she did not quite understand what that meant. There were no rules, Divine or otherwise, when it came to her. She was the exception. It did not matter that no one else thought so. He did, and he was the end. “But that is a burden I am willing to carry. Can you say the same?”