Why the hell am I so attracted to her? he wondered vaguely. She’s a pain. Ignoring those thoughts, he said, ‘Maybe I can persuade you to stay.’... Then he dipped his head to kiss her. Their lips met before Holly could counter. He was surprisingly gentle, considering his earlier behavior. His mouth moved over hers tenderly, his tongue gliding lightly over her lips as if asking for permission to enter. She granted it, and he immediately deepened the kiss and brought his arms around her waist. Alex. “I want to tell both of you something about acting as mature as you look ... Will you promise not to be offended by what I tell you? You’ll thank me for years to come for this.”“Yes, tell us! We want to know how to be like the older girls. They’re always looking down on us like they know all the secrets and we’re just peons,” Jan said.“Lose the giggles, Girls. Both of you ... It’s fun for a while, but it makes you seem even younger than you are. You’re fifteen, sexy as hell and both have. But I so grew to look forward to his thrusting shaft inside me.These occurrences happened almost every week throughout the two years until I reached my eighteenth birthday. By then I had a boyfriend who was teaching me the actual acts of fulfilling my carnal needs.My spectral delight didn't come to me every week. The visits were according to his own reckonings of his own needs, perhaps. He might appear to me for days in a row and then time would pass slowly as I waited, expectantly, and. .. guide you into being a servant worthy of holding thousands of lives at your mercy." Hades was dumbfounded and agog. His whole universe had been shaken, and he struggled to clutch all the fragments. Persephone smiled, edging up onto the altar until she was reclining onto a pile of cushions. "The first step to teaching, however, is to learn what kind of student you are. Most humans can handle adversity, but a true test of virtue is to give someone power. So, Hades... Show me what you would do.