God of War: Greek Mythology Romance (Gates of the Underworld Book 4) by H.P. Mallory & J.R. Rain

Author:H.P. Mallory & J.R. Rain [Mallory, H.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rain Press
Published: 2022-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

NINE

PEN

So, considering I just sent a giant fucking signal flare of power up into the sky, I decide that my old teacher’s good (if somewhat condescending) advice about ‘discretion being the better part of valor’ is absolutely spot on, and the second my shaking knees can actually hold me without dumping me on my face, I get the hell out of Dodge.

I don’t really have a direction in mind: just to get away before Chaena’s icy mean girl patrol hunts me down. So, I find myself running blind without a guide, which is terrifying, because I have no idea where I am in this maze, or where I’m going, or even which way the people who want to kill or kidnap me might be coming from. None of which is doing anything from keeping my pulse from hammering out the beat to ‘wipeout’. My breath is coming in ugly, ragged bursts as I half run, half slide down another corridor, praying I’m not about to run face first into danger.

I finally have to stop and brace myself against one of the ice walls, because the stitch in my side has grown to the point where it feels like I’m actually being stabbed instead of metaphorically.

I’d really thought I was in good shape before this whole spelunking adventure of the damned. I worked out. I did cardio. But jogging on a treadmill didn’t prepare me for head-long sprinting through frozen tundra while trying to get away from a deity out to murder you.

And speaking of that deity… Ares wasn’t what I expected. He seemed less psychotic than I assumed he’d be, for one thing. I guess I just figured if we ever ended up face to face, there would be a lot more violence on his part? Of course, maybe there would have been if we’d been face to face in the flesh. And that raises another question: Why go to all the effort of projecting into another level of the Underworld just to what, look at me?

I brace my arms against the side of the nearest ice wall, trying to get my breathing out of hyperventilation range. My face is flushed from running, or maybe it was that pyrotechnic display I just managed? The fine hairs at my temples are damp with sweat and sticking to my skin. I need to calm down, to figure out how to find Adonis again.

Of the two of us, Adonis and me, I’m worse off. At least he’s not alone, but I’m not sure if that’s better or not. I feel for Rhiannon, I really do, but her random appearance was sketchy as hell, and just because I’m willing to help her out so long as she doesn’t try to screw us over, doesn’t mean that I trust her to watch Adonis’s back. Or his front, for that matter. What if she really is a plant sent by Chaena, and now he’s all alone with her?

I yank my thoughts away from that direction. Panicking is so not going to help me right now.

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