Apollo stood, his eyes red-rimmed, and I craned my neck to gaze at him. “Do you think it’s smart to fuck with the chick that carries four sins inside her body?” I growled. If there were a competition in shit talking, I’d do pretty decent.
Apollo looked at his sister, who seemed to be knocked unconscious—maybe dead, who knew—and Rhea standing, staring at the swirling tornado. Her hands were still cuffed but her legs were working.
“Maisey,” she warned.
I’d lost my train of thought and now the blackness was cutting through the ground and edging closer to the Titaness.
“Sorry,” I mumbled. Moving toward the darkness, the necklace at my throat pulsed with heat as I slammed into the black force and it funneled into the portal at my throat. The second the sins were back inside of me, nausea crept over my body and my legs went weak again. Shaking like a leaf, I had to put my arms out to steady myself.
Rhea was at my side in the same instance, her glare on Apollo. “Tell us where you put Hyperion and Maisey won’t kill you.”
Right now Maisey could barely hold on to the contents of her empty stomach, but sure, I could fit a murder in too. He sighed, looking at my necklace, then back to his sister. Still unmoving.
“He’s in the trunk of a green Subaru Outback. We got the drop on him, but I doubt he’ll be out for long.”
Rhea frowned down at me. “Sub-aru? Do you know what that is?”
I nodded, gingerly getting to my feet.
“Go home and take your fucking sister with you!” Rhea snapped, in her usual style. “This isn’t your fight.”
Apollo glared, but with another cautious glance at me, he wasted no time hauling Athena up and disappearing.
Rhea dragged me after her, trying to hold on to my arm while still wearing her blue handcuffs. I risked a glance over my shoulder just in time to see Cronus … flying through the air with his fingers wrapped around Zeus’ throat. At least that seemed to be going well.
“What is the plan?” Rhea asked, looking anxiously at the same scene as me. “I’m not sure I can condone killing one of my children, but I know Cronus doesn’t feel the same.”
I nodded. “Hyperion pushed for imprisoning him. We’ll have to wait and see how that goes.”
Rhea managed a lopsided grin. “Of course he did. Hyperion … he has a kind heart. Especially for—” She cut herself off.
I frowned, my legs weaker than ever, so I skidded to a stop. Why the fuck were we running anyway? Hype was a Titan. He’d do fine in the back of a car for a minute.
“Why would Hyperion fight for not killing Zeus? What is Zeus to him?” Explosions of information began to detonate in my head, especially how Cronus always said that Rhea was never faithful to him. And now her shady little stop before she blurted out that last word. “OhmyGod, is Hyperion the real dad?”
Rhea winced. “They’re best friends, closer than that … and we were on a break. You can’t say anything. Hyperion hasn’t touched me since that one night.”
Damn. That was some heavy shit … his best friend. Also, now I was related to that fucking piece of shit, and I’d like to erase that knowledge from my memory.
“I won’t say anything,” I sighed. “I mean, Cronus already knows you were unfaithful, and it would only hurt him to find out about Hyperion.” I shrugged.
One night thousands of years ago? Surely that was better left buried.
We located a green Subaru and I banged on the trunk. “Hype?”
There was nothing at first, so I released a little bit of the sins again, sending them in through the keyhole to try to wake him from whatever they’d hit him with.
A second later, Rhea grabbed my arm and yanked me back.
We dived behind some bushes just as the trunk of the car exploded, releasing one pissed-off Titan. Hyperion rose up, his face awash with rage as he crawled out of the carnage. He was wearing the blue glowing handcuffs too.
“So you guys have no powers or can’t zap away with those on?” Panic rushed through me. I was stuck in a god battle with two fucking humans.
“I have limited powers,” Hyperion said. “They’re not strong enough to render me useless, but it did allow them to hit me with a knockout spell for longer than usual.”
“Maisey, listen.” Rhea cut Hyperion off like the ignorant bitch she was. “I don’t want you to think you’re special or anything, but you might help us out with your Selene power.”
I crossed my arms and glared at her.
#MaybeIShouldHaveLetThemKillHer
“God forbid I go through life thinking I’m special.”
She shook her head. “No, I just mean you’re not as powerful as I am, obviously, but—”
I turned to Hyperion. “Shut her up.”
Hyperion pulled my arm and guided me away from my future murder victim. “Selene’s power was always in her hair and her blood. If you could spare some DNA, it might unlock the cuffs.”
“Just tell me what to do,” I growled. There was another sonic boom, all of us stumbling forward, and I hoped Cronus wasn’t doing any damage to the canyon. I did fancy keeping one of the natural wonders of the world intact.
Chapter 9
“Oww!” I hissed as Rhea sliced into my palm with a jagged piece of glass. “You liked that too much,” I scolded her.
She rolled her eyes. “Come on, half the Greek Pantheon will be coming to Zeus’ aid once he realizes he can’t take Cronus in a fight. Surely you can bleed a little to prevent that from happening.”
“Has he ever been able to take Cronus?”
Rhea snorted. “Never. Not once. That’s the reason Cronus was the only Titan not slaughtered. No one can best him. But that doesn’t stop Zeus from trying over and over, amassing more power and coming back
