Dark Delights: A Dark Hockey Bully Romance (Hellions of Hade Harbor Book 2) by Mila Kane

Author:Mila Kane [Kane, Mila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-03-08T00:00:00+00:00

I didn’t know why the dream came that night. I fell asleep sated and relaxed. I should have been able to sleep well.

It began like it always did. We were at Miller’s Pond. It was too cold to be there with only thin coats on, but my mom didn’t seem to notice. She had the thick Greek mythology book she loved on her lap and a shawl around her shoulders. It matched the scarf she’d tied over her shedding hair.

I’d thought she’d been beautiful. I always had. I was ten, and I’d had no idea that that day at Miller’s Pond, when my mom read to me about Achilles and his mother, Thetis, would be the last I’d ever spend with her.

“At Thetis’ wedding to Peleus, attended by many powerful gods, one came along who wasn’t invited. Eris, goddess of chaos, known for causing commotions. She tossed a golden apple into the crowd, inscribed simply, ‘To the Fairest.’”

“Did Thetis catch the apple?” I’d wondered.

She shook her head. “No. Paris did, but that’s a story for another time. Thetis and Peleus went on to have Achilles, a child destined to be greater than his father. To protect him from harm, Achilles’ mother bathed him in the river Styx to make him invincible.”

She’d taken a deep breath and relaxed her frail shoulders. She’d lost so much weight, the light breeze blowing across the pond might have blown her away.

“Come on, Achilles. Let’s bathe you in the river Styx and make you invincible.” She’d looked at me and held my hand tightly, pressing it to her wasted cheek. “You will be so much stronger than your father and me, Beck. You need to be stronger than me.” She’d taken a deep breath. “You need to be unstoppable, Beck.”

She’d stood and walked to the water’s edge. Her long nightgown had trailed in the water. She never wore normal clothes anymore. She’d recently stopped leaving her room, or her bed. She’d surprised me by insisting on going somewhere, just the two of us this morning, calling me in sick to school. My father wasn’t home; he never was lately. It was just me and her and an army of private nurses and house staff.

“You need to be invincible, not like me…Live for me, Beckett. Be happy for me, my beautiful boy.”

I followed, shivering in the cool water.

She’d looked at me and laughed. A sound like silver bells.

It had been the last day of my childhood.

A perfect memory.

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