Dante's Circle Reborn by Carrie Ann Ryan

Author:Carrie Ann Ryan [Ryan, Carrie Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carrie Ann Ryan

Chapter

Six

Poppy staggered back, the revelations far too much for her to even breathe just then. Madeleine was a Medusa?

How did she not know? How had nobody known?

Of course, Mina and Marci had always made sure to push Madeleine down, to hide her as the youngest sister, the one that didn’t matter. They had been just as cruel to her as they had been with Poppy her entire life.

She had missed the fact that Madeleine was in pain just like she was. That she had to hide just like Poppy did.

“You think you can hurt us?” Queen Mina screamed. “You’ve always been nothing. So what, you think you’re a Medusa? I’m sure you just used magic like Marci did. Is that how you did it? Because it can’t be true. You couldn’t have been a Medusa all this time.”

“She has, though,” Poppy said, not knowing if it was actually the truth or not. Although, it seemed like it had to be.

The queen raised her chin, her eyes narrowed to slits. “What do you know?”

“I know that if there was a magical way to create a Medusa, you would have done it long before this. You would’ve found a way and killed anybody in your quest to do so. That’s why you’re here, isn’t it?”

“Enough of this,” Jonah growled, his eyes were still closed, but his claws were out. He was one second away from shifting to end this, and Poppy didn’t blame him. She could sense the others outside, but she wasn’t sure that any of the gorgons and the other Medusa in the room could.

In fact, she was pretty sure that these three women were oblivious to the fact that the lions were prowling around, ready to come inside the house at any moment to help.

But Poppy didn’t want anyone else to get hurt. Between Marci’s magic, Mina’s tenacity and cruelty, and Madeleine’s Medusa powers, she didn’t know if she could keep everyone alive if anyone else joined them.

“You’ll die, just like your little friends,” Mina spat.

Poppy cursed again, her powers fluctuating as she figured out what to do. Madeleine had her snakes out, her eyes wide, they were a darker silver, almost gray and matte, but they still had some of the Medusa power in them. How had Madeleine hidden that for so long?

Poppy didn’t know, and this wasn’t the time to find out.

Instead, she let her snakes hiss and shouted, “Stop now, and you can live. I don’t want to kill you.”

“You’re going to die anyway,” Mina growled.

“Stay back,” Jonah ordered, and Poppy knew that was directed at the lions. With two Medusas in play, they would die just by being in the wrong place, and she didn’t want that. She couldn’t stand by and let Madeleine die, nor would she let Jonah do all the work for her.

Marci had her arms out, muttering some incantation, but then Jonah was on top of her, his claws slashing. Marci ducked, screamed, and threw a curse at Poppy. Poppy ducked out of the way, the death curse that would’ve killed her missing her by a bare inch.

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