Bound to a Siren by Athena Rose

Author:Athena Rose
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Burton and Burchell LLC

GEORGETTE

Georgette had no sense of time in the dark cave. The only hint that offered her any idea of the sheer volume of hours that passed was the gnawing ache in her stomach, and how her limbs began to tire of holding her weight.

She gazed at the mirror—or at least, where she knew it was—but there was nothing but pitch black. Sometimes she would catch a glimpse of two hollow eyes glinting back at her, but she knew they were her own.

Fatigue and malaise took hold of her not too long after she began to pace. Her other option was returning to the mirror to stare unblinking until her eyes grew dry.

Slowly, a kind of madness crept in, and she began to hallucinate. She clamped her palms over her throbbing eyes and watched a flash of different colors explode before her. When she pulled her hands away, the colors danced in the dark like fireworks in the night sky.

She stumbled back, nearly falling into the pool of water, and when her foot dipped inside, it was like millions of daggers biting her skin.

She hissed, lurched, and fell forward, grabbing the frame of the mirror on her way down.

“Father!” she cried out, her voice raspy and dry. Her skin was tight over her knuckles and her tongue was like sandpaper scraping the roof of her mouth when she swallowed.

A bitterness flooded her heart as she thought about Isis leaving her there to die. For all she knew, the siren goddess had spouted a pack of lies to manipulate Georgette and lead her to her doom.

She chewed her lip furiously, wondering how she could have been so gullible. So foolish. But another side of her mind wrestled against the idea with the defense that she was just a young woman who had suffered much grief and loss. More than anything in the world, she wanted to believe that her mother did not abandon her. That she was not evil. She wanted to believe that there was one person in this wretched world that loved her unconditionally and did not want to control her.

Captain Stone’s face flooded her mind. Yes, he had done despicable, wretched things. She had seen with her own eyes what brutality he was capable of. But when it mattered, did he not always give her the gift of free will?

Every time she wanted to leave, he let her. Even if the action splintered his heart, shattering it into a million pieces. He respected freedom above everything.

Georgette clung to the mirror, her knees digging into the hard rock floor, wishing that Captain Stone had forbidden her to leave him. Clearly, this was a trap. There was no deal with Hades in the Underworld. Or if there was, Isis forgot to mention the part that involved Georgette having to die in order to get there.

The salty water sitting a few feet away taunted her like a honey trap. More than a few times, she thought about cupping her hands and gulping it down to end the maddening dryness in her mouth.

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