Out of Excuses Aphrodite (The Goddess Chronicles Book 8) by S.E. Babin

Author:S.E. Babin [Babin, S.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

After questioning my husband’s moral code for a moment, I shook my head and decided to worry about it later. Part of me was amused, the other part appalled, but the most important part of me knew we had to get our tail in gear and get Hermes displayed like an 18th century monarch if we wanted people to buy this insane scheme.

Artie should have taken care of that by now, and I knew her well enough to know that whatever she had staged was going to look convincing as all get out. Like so convincing the smell of rot and cloying roses was going to happen. Speaking of which I may need to convince her to tone that down. We were way past the no preservation thing, plus we were immortal.

Artie read too much.

We walked back down to the Great Room, leaving Hermes dead on the bed and whispered quietly to each other as we walked.

“Are you going to bow every time I walk into the room?” my husband asked. “Because I could find that very useful.”

“Are you going to use my title every time you address me? I’ve always wanted to be called Queen.”

“Liar,” my husband said with a chuckle.

“I know. This is the absolute worst.”

“Should we fake our deaths?”

I gave him a hopeful stare. “Could we?”

Hades rolled his eyes and tucked my hand in the crook of his arm. “I think one faked death per millennia is quiet enough.”

“I don’t,” I muttered as Hades pushed open the door.

The noise bowled us both over. Screams, shouts, noisy sobbing, and complete calamity met us as we strolled through the door. At first we escaped notice, but soon enough eyes began to turn to us. My heartbeat sped up and my steps faltered, but I knew one of the most important moments of my everlasting life was about to happen and if I hesitated or showed fear, these people were going to tear me apart.

My gaze flew through the crowd searching for my friend, but there were so many people in here, I couldn’t distinguish really anyone. I wasn’t quite sure how this many people had managed to get in here, but I couldn’t worry about it right now. Hades and I would announce the death and tell them the body would be on display later. For however advanced we were in our magic, we were still super old fashioned when it came to certain death rituals, especially with our royalty.

Then we could hopefully hightail it out of there and try to come up with a future game plan.

As Hades and I stepped up the risers so we were high enough to look down upon everyone, the noise began to slowly die away. Hundreds of eyes were on us. I swallowed hard.

Hades reached over to grip my hand and leaned over to whisper in my ear. “Bad news is like a bandage. Best to rip it off than let it linger.”

“Easy for you to say,” I whispered back. “You’re all manly and muscled and it probably wouldn’t hurt if you ripped it off.

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