War on the Gods - Books 1 and 2 by Mobley A. P

Author:Mobley, A. P.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sea of Ink Press
Published: 2020-05-23T00:00:00+00:00

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Silence. It surrounded Karter, suffocating him with sinister claws. He had no one. Not a soul. No reason to fight. No reason to live.

His muscles ached, chills bolting through his veins, but he ran anyway. Ran through pitch-black caverns, unable to see even his hands when he held them up to his face.

“Karter,” called the familiar voice of a young man. “Karter, where are you?”

Karter’s eyes filled with tears. It sounded like . . . “Spencer?” His knees trembled, his legs burning from the effort of it all. He was in so much pain, but if Spencer was still alive, if Spencer was looking for him, it didn’t matter. He would press on.

The walls turned and twisted, his head spinning.

“Karter?”

He kept running, sandals pounding against the rocky floors.

“Where are you?”

White light began flickering far ahead, illuminating the cavern. A short walk forward, a tall young man with deep-brown skin and a beautiful young woman with hazel eyes held their arms wide open, out to him.

Karter’s body filled with soothing warmth. It was Spencer and Syrena, his two best friends, both back from the dead.

He had a reason to fight again. Had a reason to live.

He leapt toward them and fell into their arms.

“Spencer—Syrena—you’re alive.”

“Spencer?” a young man who was not Spencer said.

“Syrena?” a young woman who couldn’t be Syrena said.

Karter’s heart sank. He looked up to find himself in the arms of two people who were familiar to him, but who certainly weren’t his best friends.

The first was a scrawny boy with youthful features and short brown hair. The second, a pretty girl with eyes the color of a clear summer sky and a mess of long curls hanging from her head.

It was Andy and Zoey. The two mortals Karter had helped in the Underworld in a desperate attempt to save Spencer’s life after Persephone had stabbed Spencer in the gut.

Karter pulled away from them. “What’s going on?”

Andy’s and Zoey’s expressions fell.

“How could you?” Zoey asked Karter, her tone accusatory.

“How could I what?”

The white light faded, sucking the heat from Karter’s body as it disappeared. He hugged his sides and shot them a glare, his teeth chattering. “What’s going on?”

The cavern shook. The ground beneath Karter’s feet split in two and opened into a black abyss. He scrambled to the side, tried to fly into the air, but it seemed as though he’d been stripped of his powers. He couldn’t escape.

He fell into the abyss.

As the darkness swallowed him whole, he screamed. All around him, the familiar voice of a woman, the familiar voice of Asteria, the Titan goddess who’d told him Spencer needed his help in Hades, said, “You must be strong. Your destined greatness awaits.”

Karter gasped, his eyes fluttering open.

There was thick forest overhead, the sun rising slowly. The smell of pine filled his nostrils, and sticky sweat soaked his skin. His head pounded, his throat parched, his stomach churning. The knife wounds on his side and thigh throbbed with hot pain.

He went to stretch, to climb to his feet and find some water, but thick rope bound his body tight.

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