The Daughter Trilogy Bundle by C.M. Owens

Author:C.M. Owens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mythology gods, mythology goddess, mythology and legend, mythology lovers
Publisher: C.M. Owens

Chapter 9

Broken to Badass to broken

"Any problems getting here?" A woman asks as we step off the jets.

Devin's arms keep me tightly placed against his chest, and I just lie there with limp ambition.

"Skip the small talk. Where's Deidra?" Devin barks.

"She's in the desert. We weren't expecting you to be here so soon," she yells over more planes descending loudly upon us.

Devin turns to Kry to pass me off as he walks with the woman to a car with Hale at his side. I cry a little as Kry tucks me into his safe embrace. He kisses the top of my head to try to comfort me, but it's not what I need right now. I just need Devin.

"I want to go too," I cough out.

Devin flashes back with a grimace.

"The desert is where the sirens are right now. They've hoarded them up, but they can't get too close until a silencer arrives."

"I don't want to stay here alone. Devin, I don't think I'm going to make it much longer, and I don't want to-"

His lips close over mine to halt my teary-eyed confession that is so coarse from my injured throat that it's barely understandable. I can feel his absolute panic in his mouth as it pours into mine.

He pulls me back into his arms, and this time he doesn't fight me. I could die either way. He knows that I'd rather die in his arms than in someone else's.

The car revs its engine as soon as we get in, and Hale stays behind to talk to the others about strategy.

"We'll just grab Deidra since she can't do anything without a silencer right now," Devin says to the perfectly manicured woman driving.

"It's good to see you again, Devin. Even if these aren't the best of circumstances," she offers a little too kindly.

Great. Another one.

He catches my disgruntled pout, and shakes his head. "She's my cousin," he says quickly.

Oh. Thank goodness.

He doesn't smile at my relief. His eyes stay intensely focused on the road ahead as if he's worried about every second that passes by. Of course, with every second that passes, I'm feeling all the weaker.

The car slows to a halt as the engine ticks into expiration.

"Damn it. They've already learned to control their pulses?" Devin gasps.

"That's new. I wasn't expecting that. Deidra and the others are still ten miles away. Are you ready to run?" She asks emergently.

Devin flashes with me out of the door, and sand spins behind us as he digs it up too fast.

Then I'm suddenly shrieking out my pain as I feel myself collapsing to the ground, and the banshee-like screams erupt around us.

I cover my ears, and Devin yells for me just as the vines rip free from the ground and cover the mouths of the sirens.

"Not yet," a voice commands.

No!

It's the daughter of Athena I killed during my tantrum when Persia died. She's here, and the sirens are under her authority against their will.

The vines restrain them, and Devin twists against the vines gripping him down.

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