A Spartan's Sorrow (The Grecian Women Trilogy, #2)

by Hannah M. Lynn

Orestes was unsure whether he had walked into a trap or been backed into a corner, perhaps it was both, or neither. But he knew that were Pylades to leave on that ship with his father, then the darkness that threatened to consume him would quickly complete its work. “I will come. I will come with you to see your father,” he whispered. Pylades’ posture shifted. “And you will sit in the throne room and listen to your subjects? You will accept their homage, as their King?” Just the thought of this and his chest tightened. He swallowed hard and replied, “If you will stay.” “I will stay, as long as you are trying to live your life as the gods intended,” he replied.

and we were unsure if this was manipulation orestes???? are we being fr

“Please, cousin, stay still.”

why do they keep calling each other cousin if the author wants me to care abt their relationship and not have stupid ick

Whatever I choose? Orestes thought bitterly. When had he ever had a choice in anything?

“You will have to continue your line. You will need to father children,” Orestes continued, his voice growing stronger with the certainty of his words. “And they will be perfect. Because they will be a part of you, and almost a part of me, and there could be nothing more wonderful than that.”

The goddesses, the mothers, they are the ones we turn to. And yet it is a god’s word that we have to obey, one that tells us that a man must be avenged, but not a woman.”

Pylades had left him too, not taken by death but by a marriage he could no longer put off. At some point, he would have to consider doing the same. He knew that a king must have an heir, and an heir meant a wife, but for now he would mourn the loss of the man he loved, and would live each day as simply as he could.

bro fr lmao