They Will Not Be Silenced (Seers and Demigods Book 5) by Sarah Hall & Nicole Thorn

Author:Sarah Hall & Nicole Thorn [Hall, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ebook, QuarkXPress, epub
Publisher: Burning Willow Press, LLC
Published: 2019-03-15T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN:

Chess

Callie

I TRUSTED MY GODS. It might have sounded naïve, but I did. That being said, it didn’t mean I didn’t know what they were. The gods were selfish and at best, immature. They acted like children half the time. When I said I trusted my gods, it meant the ones I knew best. Apollo felt like family to me. As one sided as it might have been, I loved him. He would protect me as his Oracle. I believed his sister had the best intentions that one could. If Apollo trusted her, then I could too. The other gods, I would be cautious with.

This man pleaded with me, asking me to see his side of things. I could do that. I did do that. I didn’t like that people who hadn’t earned it, suffered in the underworld. Those people in the fields didn’t deserve being frozen forever, but it wasn’t my place to go against the gods’ design. It would only get me killed, and it wouldn’t end up helping those people.

“It’s a suicide mission,” I said. “What you’re doing will only get you killed.”

“I have someone to protect me,” Newall said. “I’m not alone in my mission, and I could protect you as well.”

I didn’t want his kind of protection. I wouldn’t trust a man who’d tried to hurt me and my friend. “Is that the same protection that had a wolf at my door?”

With his crossbow still aimed forward, Micha said, “Yeah, I don’t think you’re here to gather team members when your policy was murder first and ask questions later.”

“That wasn’t me,” Newall said. “I didn’t know that was happening until afterward. I don’t even care that the wolves are dead.”

I stole a glance at Aster, seeing him staring at the ground. They weren’t wolves to him, and they hadn’t been wolves to me either. They were people who could turn into wolves. Just because they’d died in that form, didn’t take away their humanity. Aster had taken a life in order to save his own, and for that, I wouldn’t forgive whoever this Newall person worked with.

“I care that they’re dead,” I told him. “I care that the person you’re with tried to kill me in my own home, and that she tried to kill my friend.”

“I apologize,” Newall said, pressing his hand over his heart. “You know how some of these older people with power can be. They tend to lash out without thinking. Hence why I’m here. I think that it would be much more valuable to use my words instead of my weapons first.”

That felt like a threat. Not that I could blame him, since Micha had an arrow ready to fly at the man. The control of this demigod surprised me, because most stories I’d heard would have suggested the opposite reaction. They tended to be rash, all filled with the cockiness of a god, but lacking the power to back it up. I wouldn’t have said that about Kizzy, but her brother might have had a problem with lashing out.

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