Demeter's Tablet: a Nia Rivers Adventure (Nia Rivers Adventures Book 2) by Jasmine Walt & Ines Johnson

Author:Jasmine Walt & Ines Johnson [Walt, Jasmine]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Dynamo Press
Published: 2017-07-13T04:00:00+00:00

15

Loren’s eyes widened at the designer shopping bags I brought into the hotel room later that evening.

“So, not only did I get relegated to the kiddie table last night, but I got left out of mall shopping—no. Strike that. High-end boutique shopping.”

Her fingers traced the embossed letters on the face of the box that displayed the name of the exclusive shop I’d spent my morning at. I pulled out another with the same fancy lettering and presented it to her. She snatched it and pulled out a dress in her size. Her mouth fell open in a soundless gasp and then she let out a high-pitched squeal of delight when she held up her present.

“This softens the blow,” she said. “But you are not forgiven. I should send you back to that store to think about what you’ve done while you get me a pair of shoes to match.”

“I didn’t buy it. Demeter did.”

Loren scrunched her nose, but she didn’t put down the dress.

“And she didn’t buy it,” I continued. “It was gifted to her by one of her devoted.”

“Now I don’t know if I should cheer her for getting free stuff or hate her for being worshipped. You do know that the Olympian gods killed their parents, if mythology is to be trusted?”

“The mythology said it was in self-defense. Because their dad ate them up.”

Loren toyed with the designer label sewn into the collar of her dress. “Do you think that really happened?”

“Apparently, it did. But they don’t like to talk about their parents.” Demeter and Zeus’s stoic faces flashed before my eyes, as did Hestia’s thumb hovering over her handheld. “They get touchy every time you make a reference to them.”

“Well, I would too if my mom and dad served me up with a side of potatoes. Oh my God.” Loren rubbed her cheek against the hem of the dress. “Is this real cashmere?”

“But I don’t think they’re dead.”

“You mean Cronus and Rhea, the Titans?” Loren spoke to me, but her attention was still on the dress.

“Demi said gods never truly die.”

That got her attention. She dropped the dress on the bed and shoved her fists into her hips. “Demi?”

“Hey, I had a life before you,” I said in my defense. “Just like you had a life before me, Lolo.”

Loren rolled her eyes as I tossed Baros’s pet name at her. “Nia’s already too short for a nickname.”

“I’m not trying to replace you.”

“Of course not, at least not for another eighty years at best. Unless . . .”

I turned to face her, but she only gave me her back. “Loren? Are you thinking about accepting the Olympians’ invitation to become a Chosen?”

She shrugged without turning around. I rounded on her, but she didn’t meet my eyes. While Loren looked down, I took a moment to consider what I wanted her answer to be.

The last best friend I had who wasn’t human, Vau, had died a terrible death. I’d been too late to save her. The other best friend who wasn’t human, Demeter, was hiding something from me.

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