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Persephone closed her eyes as if her head hurt. But it was something she’d seen humans do. Gods and goddesses didn’t get headaches. She had a habit of trying out human mannerisms after watching what they did up on Earth, like the time she went through a ‘totally’ phase, using the word in front of every sentence, until I banned anyone from using it in the Underworld because it drove me insane.
“You’re never going to change,” she began, opening her eyes again and meeting my gaze. “It’s a pity, because she has so much to offer.”
I didn’t want to hear any more. I was tired of being told I was the one in the wrong when everyone else messed with me. I was tired of being forgotten when all I wanted was to be loved.
Which was pretty damn pathetic, anyway.
So, I disappeared from Persephone’s room, leaving behind the woman I’d once loved.
I visualized myself vanishing, and the world around me evaporated. In a split second, I took form again in my house on the bad side of town. Just as I collapsed on my bed, X appeared in the corner, black fog swirling around his feet, his eyes filled with eternal fire as he grinned.
“I’m not in the mood for your shit,” I said, deliberately looking away. Why the fuck didn’t anyone leave me alone?
“But you can’t get rid of me. It’s not really up to you if I stay or go.”
I groaned. Somehow, he’d escaped my control, and I ought to have been angry, but I was exhausted and frustrated. I wasn’t sure what the hell he wanted from me.
“Why the fuck can’t you leave the humans alone?” I demanded to know.
He hovered there like a nightmare. “You have no power over me.”
It looked like it was my fault, but it wasn’t. I wished it was so I could do something about him, fix up this mess of him targeting innocents. But it was out of my hands, and I already had so much to deal with, I didn’t know what do to anymore.
I covered my face with my hands and wished it would actually help.
Elyse flashed before me. Her dark hair, her big eyes, the way she looked at me when I felt like the rest of the world fell away.
Persephone was right. Of course she was. She knew me well enough to always be right about me. I was in love with Elyse. But I wasn’t going to admit it to anyone.
I looked up and X was gone. Thank fuck.
Being in love only brought me pain before. And Persephone remained in my life, showing up where she wasn’t wanted.
If that was what happened when I loved, I wasn’t going to go for that shit again. Love was grand and all, but it hurt too. And there was just as much chance of it failing as there was of it succeeding.
And those weren’t the kind of odds I wanted to bet on anymore.
