"I've told you, Hades, I can not become your mistress." she sadly told him. She had always lived in her mother's shadow, and if she followed Hades, she would once again be living in another's shadow. Even though she loved him, she did not think she could stomach it.
"I do not want you to be my mistress, Persephone, I want you to be my queen," he confessed to her. She snapped her head up to meet his eyes, searching for any sign he wanted to take his words back, but there was no remorse. And just like that, she fell ever so slightly more in love with him.
"Your queen?" she asked, she had to be sure. Strangely the word had slid off her tongue gracefully as if it had belonged there.
"Yes, become my queen," he told her once again, taking back the step she had taken. "Rule besides me as the goddess of spring and the Underworld."
The words don't seem to make sense in her mind.
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#1 - MYTH RETELLING (as of October 1st, 2021)
#1 - GODDESS OF SPRING (as of Nov 23rd, 2021)
#1 - HADES TOWN (as of Jan 13th, 2022)
#1 - HADES AND PERSEPHONE (as of Feb 9th, 2022)
#1 - GREEK MYTHOLOGY (as of March 29th, 2022)
#1 - QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD (as of April 4th, 2022)
#1 - PERSEPHONE AND HADES (as of April 20th, 2022)
#1 - GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD (as of April 20th, 2022)
#1 - KING OF THE UNDERWORLD (as of Dec 22, 2022)
#2 - HECATE (as of Nov 4th, 2021)
#2 - DEMETER (as of Jan 29th, 2022)
#2 - KING AND QUEEN (as of Feb 21st, 2022)
#2 - PERSEPHONE (as of Sep 20th, 2023)
#3 - GREEK MYTH (as of May 6th, 2022)
#4 - MYTH (as of April 21th, 2022)
#4 - RETELLING (as of May 10th, 2022)
#4 - UNDERWORLD (as of 26th, 2023)
#6 - HADES (as of April 8th, 2022)
#6 - DIVINE (as of May 6th, 2022)
#41 - OLYMPIANS (as of Feb 9th, 2021)
#55 - GREEK (as of May 8th, 2022)
#61 - OLYMPUS (as of May 8th, 2022)
"You can have anything you want," He plucked the ripest for me from the tree. "Everything in my world is yours."
With all of my mother's warnings, I had been afraid to eat from his table or drink his wine. These were binding things, and I would starve myself thin before Hades and I were tied together by communion. But in the light of this garden, it didn't seem as dangerous as it had in the dark.
"I feel your wanting," he murmured and pressed half a pomegranate into my palm. Being in Hades's underworld for so long threatened to consume me.
"Please. I shouldn't," I whispered.
"Shouldn't," he repeated. "Why, Persephone? Because it is against the rule of the gods?"
"No," I breathed. "If I cross this line, I don't know what will become of me."
"Let me show you."
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🏅#4 in Olympus
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