important to discovering who you are. And I fear, my lovely Maisey, you’re going to need to know exactly who you are before this is all over.”
#Nice #OminousWarningsAreTheBest
“Thanatos lets Selene leave the underworld once a year on the full harvest moon and return to Earth in a borrowed body in order to fill the Earth with her moon energy. Now, usually she just wanders on her night, sending her energy into the land, but twenty-one years ago … things went a little differently. She met someone on her night on Earth.”
“Oh.” Go Mom. “So the body she borrowed…”
Hyperion shrugged. “The human who carried you, that raised you, was your birth mother, but Selene's energy being present at the time of conception makes you born of two mothers.”
Weird as fuck. My mind spun. So Selene body-jacked my mom’s womb for a night? Gross. Weird. #BlackingItAllOutNow
“Wait … met someone? Are you saying the dad I grew up with wasn’t my real father either?”
Hyperion’s brow furrowed. “She never would tell me who the father was. But having heard her thoughts on the man your mother married, I’m guessing he wouldn’t be the one to break her usual yearly routine. You must understand, Maisey, there are no other children born in this way. You were an aberration for her, for some reason, and I’m wondering if this was fate’s way of ensuring that you’d be here to help us now.”
Great. Nice to know I was just being moved around fate’s board like a fucking pawn. #WellScrewYou #IwasNoPawn #QueenAllTheWay
“Sorry to interrupt, but we need to look for Crius and Koios,” Cronus told us, worry furrowing his brow just a little.
Closing my eyes for a second, I pushed all of these revelations down hard, into a place that they would stay until I had time to stress about it. My mom, who I loved more than life, was still my mother. Mostly. So I’d hold on to that and deal with the rest in the therapist’s office like all responsible adults.
When I opened my eyes, I readied myself for the next blast across the world.
Hyperion looked between us both, and something on my face had him frowning. “Maisey has had a trying day. Let me find our brothers while you both rest. I’ll send for you when I need you. We already know that every sin from here on will be harder to lock away.”
Cronus swayed a little on his feet. “I could use a recharge.”
Hyperion nodded. “I’ll take Hound. I’ll send word once I’ve found them.”
Poof. He was gone.
I looked at Cronus. Just he and I, alone in a cobbled street in Europe. “Where do you wish to lay your head tonight? Anywhere in the world…”
A slow grin crept over my face. “Bali.”
Cronus slipped his hand behind my lower back and pressed my entire body against his. “Done.”
There was blackness for a moment and then sunlight blasted into the space. I looked up and saw that we were on the beach, right in front of a ginormous luxury hotel.
I peered at the sign. Ritz Carlton Bali.
A contented sigh escaped me. “You know me so well.”
He chuckled and handed me a wad of cash. “Our bond is thinning. I don’t know why, but we should be able to be apart for a bit. Find us food. I need meat, none of that tofu crap. I’ll grab us a room.”
Room. Meat. My mind went totally in the gutter. I hadn’t forgotten my promise. I was going to make this giant god beg for it. Only then would my wounded ego be healed. Cronus stepped up to the welcome desk and I pushed our bond as far as it would go, walking ten yards to the restaurant. Part of me didn’t want to acknowledge that our bond was thinning; it made me fucking sad. Were the Fates doing it? I absentmindedly ordered him four steaks with mashed potatoes and me some steamed veggies with truffle mac and cheese to go.
I knew the world was ending and this was a very tiny pit stop to recharge, but I was really hoping I could at least take a small dip in the ocean before we had to save the world. Earth was so beautiful, and I’d traveled some of it by now so I could say that.
When I had the food, I waited on a lounge chair for Cronus to show up. I’d powered up my new phone and shook my head at the twenty thousand followers I’d amassed. Normally