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“Cold feet, Husband,” she murmurs. “No colder than your heart,” I snap.
HEPHAESTUS: DISAPPOINTING OLYMPUS AND HIS NEW WIFE.
“I draw the line at sexual assault, thank you very much.” “But not murder.”
My brain knows that it’s over. My heart hasn’t quite caught up.
“That’s where you and I are different, Pandora. You can drag your bleeding heart all over this city, wasting it on people who wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire. I don’t give a fuck about them, just like I don’t give a fuck about anyone back in Aeaea. I give a fuck about you, and I can’t keep you safe if you’re off gallivanting around with one of those monsters.”
One has to have a heart for it to be broken.
I am who I am. I can’t offer soft words and softer landings. I only know how to destroy.
I can’t be his soft landing…but maybe he can be mine.
I care too fucking much. My emotions might not rule me, but they affect me.
“Feels more complicated than hate these days. She’s a monster, maybe even my monster. I don’t like seeing her declawed.”
If Zeus says the sky is blue, Artemis will snarl that it’s purple out of sheer spite.
Lol
“That’s just it, Husband.” She smiles sweetly, only the tiniest edge present. “I’m the only one who gets to kill you. I’ll bury anyone else who tries.”
“Don’t get killed, Eris. If you do, if Helen does, I’ll become the villain they want me to be.”
“I have tried not to be him. I have tried to work with the other members of the Thirteen. I have fucking tried to bring peace to this city.” He laughs, harsh and bitter. “You have three days before I take action. If they won’t see reason, then I’ll give them something to fear.”
planning, Theseus. You’re paying the price for his ambitions—not Minos. If you’re going to suffer because of him, you should at least know why.”
moment. “If not you in a leadership position, then who?” “My benefactor.” His smile widens. “Olympus owes her a debt, and she means to collect.”
Hermes?
My heart is already in tatters. Might as well light it on fire.
It doesn’t hurt that they look at my sister like the sun rises and sets with her.
There is so little happiness in this world. Can I really be blamed for grasping the threads of what comes my way and clinging to it with all my strength? It never lasts, but there’s sweetness even in the loss.
Guess we shot right past the falling stage and into fallen.
I’m happy to give you your space.” She pauses. “But I would like at least some of that space to be in proximity to me, no matter how you choose to utilize it.”
We’re two soldiers trapped in a trench, and it won’t matter who’s firing the shots winging their way overhead. A bullet is a bullet. It only takes one well-placed shot to end us once and for all.
“Fight your own fucking war. I’m done doing it for you.”
“If you touch one of my people, I will come back here and skin you alive. You taught me to do that when I was seventeen, remember? There will be no mercy for you. Don’t fuck with me.”
“You’re my wife, Eris. I haven’t wanted to strangle you in nearly a week. That’s love, don’t you think?”
“Aren’t you tired of being a weapon they pick up and use until it’s beaten and broken? I sure as fuck am. You’ve sacrificed so much for this city, and the first thing they do to thank you is try to kill you and take your power for their own.”
