Persephone

27. Black Orchids ✔

He hands Hades the cup, and his drinks, he hands it over to me, and I drink it. My stomach turns, and my insides start to burn pomegranates.

And everything turns black.

Hades

The plan worked. Oh my gosh, I can't believe it worked.

Fuck, focus Hades.

I watch as her body floats in midair, she's becoming Persephone, Korey is slowly becoming her inner voice, her inner being. I look over at Poseidon, he's watching Korey closely, making sure that nothing happens to her, and no one interrupts her.

A cold wind blows into the palace, and the windows slam against the wall, causing people to jump. I close my eyes and listen for a heartbeat.

She's still alive.

The wind comes to a sudden stop and her body slowly lowers to the ground. It's complete, she's bound to the underworld.

I kneeled beside her body and stroked her chin, "Baby, you're mine now."

Her eyes flutter open and she gives me a faint smile, "And I am yours."

I help Korey, it feels weird calling her Korey now, I help her up and fix her dress. We share a tender kiss, and the crowd erupts into applause.

"Congratulations to the new couple," Poseidon cheers.

I look over at my dashing new bride and smile, she is glowing, I look back into the crowd and see Chase leave the hall.

Why was he here?

But that's not important, I take Korey's, I mean Persephone's hand and we walk down the stairs to the crowd, where they throw black rose petals into the air as we walk to the door. Her laughter fills my ears, my heart does somersaults, I still can't believe she's mine, my wife, my queen.

We approached the door, and it swung open, it was time to change for the reception, finally, I got to eat.

"Hades, congratulations on your marriage," My father smiles, "You have chosen wisely."

"Thank you, father, I appreciate you being here," I reply.

"Yes, it means a lot to us both," Persephone adds with a smile.

My father pulls her in for a hug and kisses the top of her head, "Welcome to the family my dear."

"Thank you, dad," she replies, squeezing him tighter.

They pull apart, and I see tears fill my father's eyes, I have never seen him this emotional, ever, not even once but here we are on my wedding day, a man older than most god knows what and he's about to cry, seriously.

My mother appears beside him and takes his hand, "I'm sorry you have to see him like this, he's never this emotional," mother chuckles.

"It's okay mama, I understand." She replies with a shy smile and looks at me.

"Let's go get ready for the reception," I take her hand and we walk up the stairs to my, point of correction, our chambers.

"Hades?"

"Persephone," I smile, I pull her closer to me, "The gods must be crazy for bringing us together."

She giggles, "Why do you say that?"

"We are the rulers of the underworld, we run this place and now that you're here, this place is about to get crazy,"

"Oh please, don't be so dramatic," she scoffs.

I laugh, not wanting to explain further, knowing full well that telling her would only make things worse for her but mostly me.

From here on out my guard is up.

"Let's go get ready for a party," she says doing a little dance.

"Alright, my beautiful wife."

I lead the way to our chambers, and I open the double doors. She stops at the door and looks at me.

"Holy shit, this is bigger than the one on earth," she says in shock, "We are so moving in here."

"No, we are not, however, we can extend the one upstairs," I suggest.

She frowns, "Why not?"

"Because we have gods have rules, which you are yet to learn babe,"

"Why do I get the feeling I'm about to go to school again?" She groans.

"You are, it's mandatory babe, you can't avoid it and you'll have Gertie as your teacher."

And that seems to make her smile, "That doesn't sound too bad."

"No, no it doesn't."

I walk her to the bed, and we look at the clothes on the bed, Gertie is serious about black and gold. I've got a black Armani suit, with a white shirt, no tie, thank the gods and a gold lapel and wristwatch. Persephone has a shimmering black dress, with a pair of gold heels, hooped earrings, and a bracelet.

"Damn, are we gonna look hella fine tonight," Persephone says, excitedly?

We both get changed and make our way to the ballroom, we walk in and its already party time, everybody is on the dancefloor dancing to The Box, Perse looks at me and starts dancing she turns her back to me and starts grinding on me, she's pushing for me to have her tonight.

We continue to dance for a couple more minutes, then my cousin Thanos shows up and everything stops.

This guy literally has poor timing.

He does a slow clap as he walks in. Drama queen much.

"Well congratulations on your matrimony my dear cousin," he says with a smirk.

"Why do you always have to ruin the fun, Thanos? Are you that bored with your life?" I hear Amphitrite says from behind me.

"Shut it, sea biscuit," Thanos growls.

"Thanos!" my father yells.

"Oh, you too old man," and he snaps his fingers, and everybody freezes except for Korey and me.

Fuck

"Now, I'm here to say one thing and one thing only," he says, "I know you're working with Chase and trust me you're making a big mistake Hades, if I were you, I'd be careful, he is not who you think he is."

"How did you know that?" Persephone asks confusedly.

He laughs, "Oh my dear Korey, sweet innocent Korey if only you knew."

He laughs and vanishes.

I look down and find Korey already staring back at me.

I think I made a mistake.

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