Persephone’s Curse
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“Man, you drive me crazy biting your lip like that.”
He passionately breathed his words against my mouth before he kissed me, gently moving me over to our bed while his lips never left mine as he laid me down carefully. His hand traveled to the hem of my skirt, drawing soft shapes against my skin.
“I really love you,” I whispered, suddenly overwhelmed with all the emotions boiling up in me.
“I love you, too,” Jayden whispered.
I pulled him down for a kiss. Just like that the rest of our life had begun.
Epilogue
Humanity is all about emotions. Fear and pain can drive us to horrible measures, but with the capability to feel hurt, beyond anything else, also comes the capability to feel happiness and to heal. In fact, hurt and happiness, fear and healing are such close neighbors that one can’t exist without the other. Sometimes, happiness arises from the greatest hurt.
Sometimes, only loss enables us to find something new. We cherish the memories of those we’ve lost, and remember that they all died fighting. They fought for personal wishes, they fought their own demons, for a better future or sometimes simply to see another sunrise. In the end, when we struggle with our strongest enemy — ourselves — we try to find a tiny sliver of happiness emerging from the all hurt we carry inside.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I want to thank you, my readers, for taking a chance on me. For reading a novel by a first-time author. For fulfilling my lifelong dream of having my novel read. It really means the world to me to know that people I might’ve never even met take the time out of their day to read the words I put on paper.
Melissa from holymell Edits, thank you for being such a kind editor. You really helped me improve my novel and I never felt like I had to compromise the story for it.
I also want to thank my parents for always telling me that if I wanted to I could be a writer. For never stopping me from chasing after this dream. A special thank you to my mom for being my first reader, the first I shared Elin and Jayden with.
Thank you to my friends for bearing with me when sometimes all I could talk about was that new novel idea I had or how I had just developed a new character.
And Nico, my husband, thank you for not only being my in-house designer and creating my website, cover and every other aesthetically pleasing aspect of this novel but also bearing with me while I wrote it. Thank you for letting me bounce ideas off of you, for never complaining when I wanted to talk about new ways to torture my characters during dinner time or when I had a hard time focusing on anything but my story. Thank you for reading a novel that absolutely isn’t your genre and giving me advice on the parts that didn’t work yet. This novel wouldn’t be as good without you, just as my life wouldn’t be as great without you.
SANDRA BATS
lives in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Persephone’s Curse, the first installment in its trilogy, is her debut novel. Books have been her lifelong passion ever since she learned to read and she is currently working on several future projects.
You can visit her online at www.sandrabats.com