Page 66 of Releasing the Gods
Hyperion spoke up. “We did. Eons ago. Do as you’re told.”
I cleared my throat. “Show them respect as well,” I said softly. “I know they’re only humans to you, but they’re not to me. They’re important. They died when they shouldn’t have.”
Cronus pressed a hand to my lower back and all these warm feelings shot through me. “Give them a burial fit for a Titan,” he told Rhea, and even though she didn’t look that excited about it, she didn’t argue.
With that, the two men turned away, Cronus grabbing my hand, dragging me with him. Only I was privy to the daggered glare that Rhea shot me as we retreated.
Hah. Take that bitch.#IGotYourMan
“Shall we find Strife and Turmoil? Help out Crius and Koios?” Hyperion asked as we walked.
Cronus nodded, “I think that would be wise. The sins are acting a little different this time, and something tells me they’re going to team up. It’ll be a group effort to contain them.”
Hyperion looked down at me. “Maisey, how are you feeling?”
I shrugged. “Like a bear is sitting on my chest.”
Hyperion nodded. “That should lessen as the necklace takes hold of Sickness and integrates him.”
Cronus frowned. “I wouldn’t put more than three Sins in the necklace. I’m afraid of what it might do to Maisey. After that, we need a new plan.”
I nodded. “I think it’s time you finally told me how Selene is my mother. She’s been dead for a thousand years. Plus, I had a mom, and she had photos of me in the hospital. I’m … I need to know now.” I’d let him get away and deflect this question too many times already.
Hyperion sighed. “It’s a bit of a guarded secret, but … I agree, you should know. Understanding where you come from is very 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.”
