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I am Persephone, future Queen of the Underworld, Lady of Your Fate. May you come to dread my presence.”
Darling, I would burn this world for you
“Oh, darling, but I have told you before—for you, I would destroy this world.”
“Alas,” he said, his voice low. “You are my greatest weakness.”
“This darkness is not the same. This darkness is toil and trauma, grief and loss. It is the darkness that will make you Queen of the Underworld.”
“Trust, darling, I will let no one—not king or god or mortal—stand in the way of making you my wife.”
“Grief means we loved fiercely…and if that is all anyone ever has to say about either one of us in the end, I think we lived our best lives.”
“I will build temples in honor of our love, and I will worship you until the end of the world. There is nothing I wouldn’t sacrifice for you.”
“That part of me wants you praying for my cock. Writhing beneath me as I pound into you. Begging for my come to fill you.”
“You were my only love—my heart and my soul. My world began and ended with you, my sun, stars, and sky. I will never forget you but I will forgive you.”
We are all broken, Persephone. It’s what we do with the pieces that matters.”
“I have seen love—all forms and degrees—but there is something dear about this love—the kind you two share. It is desperate and fierce and passionate.” She paused to laugh—and so did everyone behind them. Persephone blushed, but Hades remained passive. “And perhaps it is because I know you, but it is my favorite kind of love to watch. It blossoms and blazes, challenges and teases, hurts and heals. There are no two souls better matched. Apart, you are light and dark, life and death, a beginning and an end. Together, you are a foundation that will weave an empire, unite a people, and weld worlds
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“I should have never allowed you to leave that temple. That prophecy was not about your children. It was about you.”
