Damien's POV
Twenty-five times.
That is how many times I have called Persephone and gotten no answer. At first I thought it was because she was busy, maybe reading or cooking but when I started getting this uneasy feeling in my chest and bitter taste in my mouth, I knew something was wrong.
Normally, she wouldn't even let my call ring for up to ten seconds and she would pick up. She was always eager to talk to me. So you can imagine my worry when I called her the first five times and got no response, save the remaining twenty. I almost went mad.
It was even more alarming when I walked through the door of my house to find it empty. I felt her absence before I even walked inside, because even the trees around the house looked forlorn. The only thing I saw that was a confirmation that so
