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After, Persephone had turned to Hades. “I expect to be informed before you attempt to dismiss anyone under my care.” Hades’s brows rose, his lips twitched, and he countered. “I hired her.” “I’m glad you brought that up,” she’d said. “The next time you decide I need staff, I also expect to be included in the decision making.” “Of course, darling. How shall I apologize?”
“I am not sure who you think I am,” she said. “But let me be clear—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.”
“You should have known I would find you once you took your clothes off. It is a sixth sense.”
“I will not be late to Sybil’s party, Hades. If you wish to please me, then you’ll make me come and on time.” Hades smirked. “As you wish, my darling.”
“It is you now, you forever.”
“Indulge in me,” she whispered. “I can handle you.”
“You’re mine. Of course I can handle you.”
“I never thought I’d thank the Fates for anything they gave me, but you—you were worth all of it.” “All of what?” “The suffering.”
“To fill me,” she breathed. “To fuck me.” “That was no promise,” he said. “It was a vow.”
“Being one of them does not mean I agree with them,”
“You have ten seconds to hide. Then I will seek you out.”
“No. My fantasy is the chase. I am going to hunt you, and when I find you, I will bury myself so far inside you, the only thing you’ll be able to say is my name.”
“I’ve thought of you all day,” he said, and a thrill went through her.
“The way you taste, the feel of my cock slipping inside you, the way you moan as I fuck you.”
“I want to fuck you so hard, your screams reach the ears of the living.”
“You are my lover. You are my queen.”
“Darling, every time I fuck you, it’s a fantasy.”
“Trust, darling, I will let no one—not king or god or mortal—stand in the way of making you my wife.”
“No one ever said you had to pretend everything was okay,” Hermes said. “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.” He drew away to look at her, eyes like shimmering stars. “Do you understand that?”
“There is something dark that lives inside me,” he said. “You have seen it. You recognize it now, don’t you?” She nodded. “It wants you in ways that would scare you.” Was he telling this to scare her? Because it had the opposite effect, sending a thrilled shiver down her spine.
“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.”
“I want to be so full of you, I only taste you for days.” Her mouth closed over his earlobe, and she sucked hard.
I will coax the darkness from you
You said you would burn this world for me, and yet it lives, and it thrives, and you exist within it—without me.
“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.”
