Morpheus could tell Persephone had been awkwardly trying to please him, doing everything to make him happy. He felt sorry for her and deeply guilty, too. He didn't know how to tell her about his past.

Those ugly scars were something he didn't even want to touch himself.

"Morpheus, what's wrong?" Persephone's heart dropped when she noticed his constant distraction.

"Did... Did I say something wrong?"

"No." He gently caressed her face. "It's not you, Sephy. It's me."

"Why would you say something silly like that?"

"It's really my fault."

Persephone tiptoed to run her fingers through his hair when a distant rumble echoed in the sky.

ago, there were clear skies, and now

react, large

arms and dashed in a certain

Persephone urgently asked. "Our car isn't

the mountain, and going downhill with this downpour is risky!" Morpheus glanced at her. "There's a cave nearby. Let's take shelter there

rain intensified, she had no

Bushes partly concealed the cave's entrance, and the interior was

a stream, so you can hear the water." Morpheus smiled, taking

already dressed lightly, the rain had soaked her skirt, revealing her curves under the

coughed and averted his

you back down the mountain." "I... I can walk by myself." Persephone's voice

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