The Deep End of the Sea by Lyons Heather

Author:Lyons, Heather [Lyons, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Young Adult
ISBN: 9780985865313
Publisher: Cerulean Books
Published: 2014-02-05T07:00:00+00:00

“Have you had a chance to look at the list yet?”

Hades doesn’t look up from his iPad, on which he’s been reading the morning’s news and reports from the Underworld. “No.”

Persephone sighs and sets her fork down and stares at him, hard.

Her husband reaches for his coffee. “I gave it to Talos.”

She picks her fork up only to drop it again, making sure it clatters loudly. He finally looks up and says, “Light of my life, the two of us have gone over the plans for Friday at least a dozen times each. It is in the hands of the Automatons now. Have a little faith that things will go well. When have any of your parties ever gone badly?”

“I can think of a few,” she mutters darkly.

He sets his cup back down. “Let me rephrase—when have any of your parties in the last millennium gone wrong?”

This prompts her brows to crease. The next thing we know, she’s standing up and heading out the door, shouting for Talos.

Hades angles one of his droll smiles toward me with a small shrug of his shoulders as if to say, “What can you do? She is who she is, but I wouldn’t ever have it any other way.”

I hide my laughter behind my own cup of coffee. Persephone has been planning Hades’ birthday party, set for three nights from now, for months. I find it humorous that she does so, as he’s repeatedly mentioned how he doesn’t feel the need for one, especially now that he’s reached “middle age.” Of course, this makes me wonder just what “middle age” for the Assembly entails, but I’m not going to be the one to ask him.

That said, Persephone is on edge about the attendance list and security, and while nobody will confirm why, I have an unsettling suspicion that it has to do with me. I’m always told it’s because these are typical issues for members of the Assembly—there are those who will always try to crash the parties in efforts to curry favor from the gods. But as I know I’m under constant surveillance, I can’t help but worry once more that something is going on that I don’t know about yet.

What I do know is that the last week has been heavenly. Since Hermes and I finally admitted our feelings for one another, my feet have finally found firmer ground. We had a conversation the morning after making love for the first time that really shook me to my core yet strangely strengthened my happiness.

“Last night,” I asked him as we ate breakfast in my room, “you said something strange.”

He looked up over the toast he was buttering and flashed me that dazzling smile of his that gets me every single time. “Was me telling you how much I adore and love you the wrong thing to do? Because I can’t take it back, love. Now that it’s finally out there, there it will stay.”

I blushed furiously. “Not that. I liked that very much.

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