Persephone’s Fall – Page 5
“There are people who might say that a pretty girl with everything to live for, who spends her time dangling off the side of buildings, is more than a little crazy.” Hades is trying to sound tough, or angry, or something other than scared, but that’s what I hear in his voice. He’s worried I’ll fall, and that the beautiful dream he put together for us will never happen.
Boo fucking hoo, Hades.
Before I can stop myself, I swing one leg way out over the edge, and I know it looks like I’m going to jump. I hear the scrape of heels on the rooftop gravel as Hades starts to move. Too slow. If I wanted to, I’d have plenty of time. Months. Years. Eons of time before he could get to me. I’m grinning, hanging there, hearing the sound of his footsteps in slow motion.
Hades shouts “You promised!” and the smile leaves my face just as if he’d slapped me. He’s right, I promised, and this isn’t the way things get to end. So I pull myself back, and swing a leg over the security fence, and turn to face him for the first time since he got here.
