“Marry me.” Persephone sat back. Hades was still hard inside her, and the movement made his eyes glitter like coals. “What?” There was no way’d she heard him correctly. “Marry me, Persephone. Be my queen. Say you’ll stand by my side … forever.” He was serious, and she was … confused. Not about her love for Hades—but so many other things. “Hades … I …” She couldn’t figure out what to say. “You were just angry with me.” He shrugged. “And now I am not.”
