Page 9 of Releasing the Gods
A sudden yanking motion pulled at my stomach, and then I was ripped from the bed, falling to the floor.
“Hey! Don’t fuck with my sleep,” I growled at him. “If we’re going to be roommates or whatever, you need to let a girl sleep or there will be hell to pay.”
He thought I was peppy? Not on your fucking life. I needed at least ten hours every single night or I was the devil incarnate.
His eyes hooded a little as the side of his mouth twitched. “There may be a warrior in you yet, human.”
I sat up and crossed my arms, giving him the staredown. My gaze flicked to the clock to see that it was only 6 A.M.
Oh hell no.
“Come back in four hours. Here, play on my phone.” I handed him my phone, before standing and crawling back into bed. The second I lay back down, an incredible burning pain ripped through my body. My eyes flew open to seeCronus, weird as fuck name, Titan … god ... whatever, bent on one knee, flinching in pain.
“Owww! Stop, okay I’m up,” I roared.
“I’m. Not. Doing it.” He grimaced. I thought I’d seen him mad before, but it was nothing compared to the wrath I saw on his face now.
“They’re here,” he said ominously.
Chills ran up my arms. “Who?” My voice cracked.
The pain was receding now, and something told me that he felt it way more than I did.
“The gods. Zeus’s little bitches. One of them just dropped into this city.”
My eyes bugged. “The…” I cleared my throat “…gods are here? The ones who imprisoned you? Your family?” I needed to have a little Google session when time permitted.
He frowned. “They are no family of mine. Not anymore.”
Considering they’d tried to kill him, that was probably fair.
I stood, adrenaline pumping through me at the thought of meeting another one of these giant gods.
“What do we do?”
He seemed very calm and unafraid for a Titan with limited powers who had just been socked in the stomach by one of his family members from far away.
“My powers aren’t working right,” he snarled. “Last night, while you slept, I tried to go back in time to before we were bound together and kill you, but it didn’t work. I couldn’t even travel.”
My eyes bugged. “You what? How dare you! Wait, time? You can … travel time?”
Cronus nodded. “At full strength I can. Among many other things. Weren't you humans taught of me?”
I shrugged. “Zeus, Aphrodite, and Ares … that’s all I remember.”
He scoffed, looking offended. “Well, my powers didn’t work, which means I won’t be able to fight off Zeus as well as I would at full power. So I’ll need a weapon.”
Okay, this was really happening—I was tethered to a Titan who had some major beef with these gods. A Titan who apparently wanted me dead and would probably follow through when he got enough juice.
Did I really want to help arm him?
I guessed he was the lesser of two evils right now.
“I know where you can get a gun. They sell them at all the stores here now.”
He stared at me like I was dog shit on his shoe. “A gun? That won’t do anything against Zeus and his army. No. We need to get to Zakynthos Island. There’s an enchanted weapons maker there.”
“Zaky what? Is that like, in Greece?” Was this dude for real? I had a shift at the Crab Shack at noon. I couldn’t fly to Greece!
