He had a strong jawline with a few days of scruff. His lips looked soft and teased at a dazzling smile, but it was those eyes. So intelligent, so misc...ievous, so blue! I could feel my stomach flutter and my knees turn to jelly, how cliché is that?I mentally kicked myself for the rom-com bullshit, and also because I was becoming painfully aware that I still hadn’t answered him. “Erm, I’m okay, really! I shouldn’t have been walking and messing on my phone.”God damnit, why are you like this? I. I acknowledge that I could probably make your neck feel better. I move behind you and begin to work my fingers across the top of your shoulders. No wonder your neck and shoulder muscles hurt. They are so tight and you definitely need a massage to help you relax. You move your hair out of the way which helps, but now your collar is causing a problem. I ask if you would mind folding it under. Instead, without a word, you unbutton the top three buttons of your blouse. Now your shoulders are. The statement he was looking at was headed up to show that it was for the month of June and he quickly leafed through his pile to identify how many pages made up that month's account."Jesus! There are nineteen pages to one month's accounts. The Church of Cyberscience certainly seems to be extremely active," he said aloud.Drew merely grunted in response, his head buried in his own pile of statements.Mark decided to follow a hunch and he set the nineteen pages of the June account to one side and. Stories her mother told her in her youth. Stories of darkness and warnings. This was Hades."This is a world untouched by your mother," he said. He reached up and plucked a fruit from a tree. "Here, taste something that your mother never grew. It's just a pomegranate, but you'll find the flavor much more enjoyable than in the other world."Persephone held the fruit in her hand amazed that she didn't feel the slightest bit of connection with it. It was liberating. This fruit would grow, flourish.