The Forge King (The Dark Kings Book 6) by Jovee Winters

Author:Jovee Winters [Winters, Jovee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: JoveeWintersPublishing
Published: 2018-09-01T18:30:00+00:00

10

Hephaestus

The image cleared, and I didn’t know what to think. Everyone was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop in the hall. And then as one, I felt the eyes of all of them turn to me, looking at me with questions in their eyes. When had Aphrodite and I built such a friendship? And the truth was quite simple.

We hadn’t.

And yet…

Themis could only reveal truth.

I looked at Aphrodite. She was a tiny flower in that massive throne. And she stared down at her sandaled feet with pain and misery clearly etched on every line of her face.

I’d felt her emotions viscerally during that memory. The highs. The lows. The wonder. Joy. Even her jealousy, and each one of them now felt like a precious, golden flame that I needed to guard. To cherish. And to protect.

I wanted to talk with her. Wanted to ask how. What was this? She’d told me many times that she came from a different place. A different time, when we’d loved each other and we’d been each other’s whole world, but I couldn’t fathom that as a reality. As the truth.

I shook my head, mouth opening and shutting, desperate to make the words Themis’s power had prevented me from making.

Calyssa and Hades went to Dite and gathered her up into their arms, and the first sound of her sob broke my soul in two. I clenched my armrests so hard that they cracked at the center. Like a bolt of lightning, it forked cracks all down the throne. There was a loud groan, and I had just enough time to stand before it shuddered once and collapsed to the marble floor.

Dite. Dite. I cried out her name in my mind, with all my heart, hoping somehow that she would hear me, that she would know I was finally ready to listen. That now I needed to know more. Feeling stupid and dumb for refusing to let her show me before, I felt panic clawing at me. But the story had seemed so incredulous. Impossible. How could a god not feel such a change in time? How could I not know if the woman I’d once loved more than life itself but who’d been poison, venom, had so completely altered that she was an entirely different soul? A different being completely?

How could I have not known that?

But she didn’t look back at me as she walked into the travel tunnel that would lead her away from me for the rest of the day. We would reconvene on the morrow. And then it would be my turn, my memories on display, and I didn’t want to do that to her. Didn’t want her to see a version of herself that now I wasn’t sure had ever been her at all.

Only once she’d left did Ares go too.

I shook my head.

And because the words were there but unable to be formed, all I could do was roar. Scream out to the heavens. I could not stop this now.

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