Nether: Hidden Book Five by Vanderlinden Colleen

Author:Vanderlinden, Colleen [Vanderlinden, Colleen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Building Block Studios LLC
Published: 2014-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

I waited outside the Netherwoods for my father. We were supposed to be patrolling together, looking for Nether or Hyperion or whoever the hell else we could find. He was still annoyed that I wouldn't set foot in the Nether, but I stuck to my guns, waiting just outside the tree line until he made an appearance.

"Really, Mollis, it's ridiculous," he said as soon as he came into view. "It's a place. Nothing more."

"Right. That's why you all gravitated to it like moths to a flame," I said.

He gave me an irritated scowl.

"And it's not the same, because Nether isn't there powering it," I added.

We rose into the air. "No, it's not the same," Hades said as we took off. "But it's close enough. It looks right. It even smells the same."

"And what are you doing about the souls?" Family business: people die, crows bring their souls to my dad, my dad passes judgment on how much and what type of punishment they need, then my mom and aunt make it happen. In the original Nether, the souls as well as anyone else my family had been punishing (usually demons) had resided in the Pit, and the worst of the worst had spent eternity in Tartarus. Both places had been powered by Nether (the being's) energy. Though from what Gaia had said, there was some sentient energy powering them too, which was why we had a new Nether. Life found a way.

"It's not perfect," he admitted. "West?" he asked and I nodded. We both tilted, turning that way. "Right now, we're using demons and the few Netherhounds I've managed to track down. I fear we've lost most of them, though."

"They stayed in the Nether, you mean?"

Hades nodded. "Right now it's working well enough. We'll have to figure out something eventually, but for now we're making our way through the backlog of souls that accumulated after Nyx destroyed the gateway."

"Do the souls generally give you much trouble? Do they try to escape and shit like that?" I asked.

He shrugged. "At first, they do. Once your mother and aunt start on them, they lose the will to even bother."

"Where are you guys staying? It's just forest, right?"

He gave me a look. "There is a palace. My presence there makes is so." I thought about that. I remembered his palace in the original Nether. He could change it at will, suiting his (and, usually, Persephone's) whims. "I am enjoying refining it, and your mother has excellent taste."

We flew in silence for a while, and I caught him watching me. "What?" I asked.

"You know you can always join the family business, Mollis. I know you feel at odds here."

"Mom has a big mouth," I muttered.

"And why do I have less right to know that than your mother does?" he asked, irritation tinging his emotions.

"You don't. She doesn't either. I didn't tell her that."

"So she felt it, which means it's true," he said. "And you really need to get over being annoyed that you're not the only one who can read emotions now.

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