He spiked the dirt, twisted out the deformed rose, tossed it aside. His palms sweated.’Sorry,’ Persephone suggested.’Pardon?’She murmured, ‘You should say sorry when you kill something.’It took him a moment to realize she meant the rose. ‘It was dying anyway.”Dying and dead are different words.’Shamed, Adam muttered an apology….

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