Fire (Pirate Cove Academy #3) - Rae Foxx Page 0,2

Caspian shuddered. I wanted to touch him, reassure him. We were both grieving now. But now was not the time. Not with the level of hostility in this room

“This has to be enough. She killed the King of Atlantis!” Pearl snapped. Llyr shot her a stink eye and I laughed a little. Maybe not the queen material after all.

“No,” Caspian offered, his tone sinister. “Nothing short of the Trident that killed my brother will be enough for her. She won’t stop until she gets it.”

“Unless we kill her first,” Llyr offered. He was all talk and no game. I rolled my eyes, typical royalty.

“She’s not going to let me in,” Caspian whirled on Llyr, but his eyes remained on the head in between them. “She knows I double-crossed her now. No chance I can just slip in and murder her.”

Pearl scoffed. “Sounds like a personal problem to me.”

Kai sighed heavily at my side. He hadn’t been around these three long enough for them not to get on his nerves. “Cut the arguing. It’s all of our problem; at least, that’s what your father said when we were Below.”

“Explain,” I demanded, tapping my foot.

Kai turned to me, his usual smile a downturned grimace. “Zaniah, your father has another daughter.”

“Alright, we knew that one already. Though, you conveniently left out who that person is,” I quipped, Kai’s eyes hardened at my snark.

“That would be because I don’t know who. Your father never told me.”

So we’d finally returned to perhaps the most important piece of information we’d learned so far. I’d been shoving aside all thoughts of this conversation since Kai had told us, unwilling to think too much about it. Besides, I’d been busy…fucking a Siren.

I still felt no regret about that. Caspian was mine, just as I was his.

Steadying my gaze on Kai, I nodded my head for him to continue. He put his hands on his hips and hung his head like the last thing he wanted to do in the world was to deliver this news. “He had an affair with the daughter of Hades. They produced a child. A female.”

Llyr scoffed and rolled his eyes. “Yeah, we already knew that. Though I’m not sure why he told you of all people, rather than his own fucking son.” I shot my brother a glare, now was not the time for pettiness.

Kai shook his head and lifted those golden eyes in my direction. “This daughter was born before Llyr. Before you or your brother were even a glint in your mother’s eyes.”

Now was not the time for poetry. Now was the time to process the fact that the demise of our entire way of life could be brought about by someone we have never met. But she was our sister, so... welcome to the family?

“Who was the woman? I mean, how does this impact anything we are doing?” Pearl had the nerve to ask as if it were any of her business. As if she would be around long enough for it to matter.

Kai blew out a long breath. “That’s the worst part, I’m afraid. King Lir had an affair with Makaria, the daughter of Hades himself. A goddess in her own right. Ruler and creator of the Sirens.”

My heart thrummed between my temples as my brain struggled to put the pieces together. String all the threads of information into a knot that I could process.

“Wait a goddamned minute,” Caspian said, putting his hand up like the gesture could stop the fury that had already started. “There’s some woman out there, who is not only the heir of Triton and of Atlantis, but is also rightfully the heir to the Siren kingdom?” His eyes widened even though Kai didn’t answer him. “She could fucking rule us all.”

The room went dead silent. That was not something that had yet occurred to us.

Llyr stumbled back until his legs hit one of the sofas and he collapsed onto it, sitting down before tugging his hair at the roots. “She must be the one who has the Trident. The only other person who can wield it.” He was more muttering to himself than talking to us, but still, he looked up at Caspian. “She must be the one who killed Baltic, and I’d bet my golden scales she’s the one who is orchestrating all of this Siren activity at the school. But who the fuck is she?”

A silence blanketed the room while we simultaneously processed the new information and rattled our brains to connect