Venus Rising: Book 3 Aphrodite Trilogy (The Daughters of Zeus 6) by Kaitlin Bevis

Author:Kaitlin Bevis [Bevis, Kaitlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781611947526
Publisher: ImaJinn Books
Published: 2017-06-08T22:00:00+00:00

“If they find out what I am, I’m dead. You get that, right?” She clenched her fists, jagged, broken nails scraping against her palms as though she could stop shaking by sheer force of will. “One wrong move, one stupid wrong move, and they won’t hesitate to kill me. They’ll relish it. They’re halfway there already, and I have nothing! No powers, no way out. And you knew that. Why would you bring me back here? I’d escaped. We were out. Free! And you yanked me back. Why?”

“Hey.” Otrera moved closer to Aphrodite, reaching her hand out to calm the pacing goddess. “This isn’t helping.”

She jerked away from Otrera, her breath coming fast. “Answer me!”

Confrontation and I didn’t get along. When people yelled at me, I tended to get skittish. “Y-you needed to find your friends and the weapons, and—”

“I can’t do anything! I’m not—I can’t—” Aphrodite glanced up at the ceiling, blinking rapidly. “Why did you bring me back?” she asked again, breaking down into harsh sobs and collapsing onto the couch.

What happened? I mouthed to Otrera, scooting until my back met the worn arm of the couch to give them room.

Otrera perched gingerly on the edge of the cushion and shook her head.

A familiar odor struck me. Sweat, blood, and mud. Both girls were still coated in dust from their golden hair all the way down to their dirt-caked shoes.

Hesitantly, I moved beside the weeping goddess, wrapping my arm around her slim shoulders in an awkward half hug. “What if you weren’t what I thought you were, and I just left you there? Abandoned you to them. I had to know. Plus . . .” Guilt flared within me. “I needed your help.”

“I’m not help.” Her face looked drawn and pale. “I’m not—I can’t—” She gripped the edge of the couch so hard, her knuckles turned white.

“Aphrodite.” I kept my voice calm and even. “What happened?”

“It’s stupid,” she gasped. “So incredibly stupid. It’s stupid that it happened, that I let it happen, that it scared me, that I couldn’t do anything. That I’m this worked up. It’s so frickin’ stupid.” She gulped back tears and tried to catch me up, her voice raw with equal parts anger and terror.

When her voice failed, Otrera took over, heat permeating her every syllable. Her toned, golden shoulders were rigid with tension as she explained what happened in clipped, angry tones.

“He did what?” Relief coursed through me, chased closely by guilt. I was getting sickeningly used to that feeling. Narcissus attacking the gods wasn’t good, but at least the whole “people not being able to die and being stuck in their not-quite corpses” ordeal couldn’t be laid at my feet. One less thing to blame myself for. “Is he suicidal?”

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