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She’d always be Sally I’d be her Jack

A goddess like Persephone, to a dark lord like Hades

Queen of death

Queen of me

For always

ARLEN

Death came to me in the form of a man

He replaced the halo that had fallen froed of bone, blood, and desert roses

He gave me life, but didn’t know it yet

Looking back at the path I’d walked, I couldn’t believe the woman I’d become, but she was someone I could be proud of This whole journey was like watching ascreen

I sat on the couch with Cali and Katya, relaxing for the final weeks before our lives turned chaotic again

Across the roohtmares, and in his arms was a small bundle wrapped in pink She was our key source of happiness, it seemed, a temporary stress reliever to hold onto for a few moments

He looked up at ently handed her to Cobra Ro over their shoulders

I wasn’t sure of the precise eous man had come to mean so much to me

I think he had had et the wind in our sails

He was an angry gray cloud, hovering over my head, just out of a reach And then the drizzle started, but I didn’t thinka deal

Before I knew it, he was a thunderstor more

He was as lethal to —he was my Tartarus hurricane

I don’t knohat gave hiht to sweep in and wreak havoc on lad he had, because he’d destroyed me in the most beautiful way possible

He showed ht to be found in the dark

What seeuise

In this world, I was forced to change, to enter uncharted territory to find th and authentic self

What survived may not be kind, but it was me As my eyes came to rest on Cobra, I knew that for the best

It was going to take a helluva lot of bloodshed to ht