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Only a small handful of her brothers—
Falcyn, Max, Illarion, Hadyn, and Gadryn.
“Why, you remind me of Prince Styxx, you do. Spitting image of him, you are.”
Are we sure Hybris didn’t swap you out at birth with my real and true son?”
That is when childhood really ends. The day we cease to walk in the shadow of our parents’ protection and we stand alone to face the full light of our lives, on our own two feet.
She could never be what he needed.
“As you say, m’gios. Life is all about perspective.”
Honor. Integrity. Loyalty. Mercy.”
“Those markings on your arm are from the most ancient of languages. One of the very first. You hold powers from the goddess Bathymaas.”
How easy he made it sound—like love was a choice.
He did love her. And that would damn them both.
Strykerius would never forgive Apollo for his damnation of their innocence. She would make sure of it …
Beware the hellhounds of war. Once unleashed they are as quick to eat their master as they are to feast on the throats of their enemies.
Worse, he’d been lied to from the moment of his birth.
he held himself together with a rigid composure that would have done Styxx and Bethany proud.
Never let your pain make your decisions, my love. For it is in our darkest hours that we make our darkest hells.
“I’ve loved you all these years.”
She was so much to him. His best friend. His touchstone. His dragon.
His heart breaking, he let her go and stepped away. Tonight, he hadn’t just lost his mother. He’d also lost his dragon and best friend. And probably his wife, too.
Twenty-seven years just wasn’t long enough for anyone to live and die. They were gone before they had a chance to begin.
He had less than five years to that fateful birthday. Five years …
Widowmaker.
She alone had known his soul.
Plus the pain of bearing her love without her here …
The Thanatogori—deathwatch, or daylong vigil—
Life is loss.
You are the phoenix on your shield. You will rise from these ashes,
With long jet-black hair that flowed past his shoulders,
godlike essence was the staff he carried.
Apollymi’s sun symbol, which was pierced by three lightning bolts.
Especially when the man-creature turned a pair of swirling silver eyes toward him.
The only time he didn’t was if they impacted his future some way, or if they were a friend or family.
From this too, I will rise.
Akelos were Daimons who only preyed on human souls that were corrupt.
And Anaimikos were those like Davyn who fed from Paris. Daimons who fed other Daimons. Those who didn’t kill at all. They split the souls with their partners.
Her kiss was the psuché—the breath of life.
And when the final night is upon us, we vow to stand together and ease the one who travels first.
“Soul to soul we have breathed. Flesh to flesh we have touched. And it is alone that we must leave this existence, until the night comes that the Fates decree we are reunited in Ouranlie.”
Death was coming. And the bastard already had him marked.
“He’s Apostolos,” Cassandra murmured as she struggled to snap herself out of her daze. “The son of the Atlantean Destroyer and a god in his own right. We’re so screwed.”
“She is pregnant,” the goddess announced without turning around. Stryker knew the she that the goddess referred to was Cassandra.
“Remember, Strykerius, kill the heiress before the Elekti returns. You are not to engage him. Ever.”
Abadonna
For that matter, every horror movie with
giant rodents she’d ever seen. So help her God, if anything furry with whiskers came scurrying out, she was going to scream like a B movie actress and cause an avalanche! She’d break the sound barrier. She would!
“Strange. Those were the last words Paris said.”
But as he walked around the underground city, he kept having the strangest premonition. He saw himself in the past. Alone. And he heard someone weeping, but he didn’t know who.
“What you call an overuse of profanity, I call sentence enhancers.”
Oddly enough, Urian would settle for that himself because as he headed back to Kalosis, he couldn’t shake the feeling that something horrible was about to happen.
In all his life, she was the only one who’d ever really taken care of him.
