Warrior Avenged by Addison Fox

Author:Addison Fox [Addison Fox]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2010-11-09T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Enyo paced her home on Mount Olympus, the usual adornments and decorations of death that surrounded her ineffective at easing the raw, mind-numbing anger.

Her pulse thundered and her deep-set anxiety scattered each and every thought that whirled through her mind.

How did Emmett know who I am?

Like a master chess player, he’d put her in check and she’d never seen the move coming.

Nor did she have any response.

After he dropped his bomb of knowing exactly who and what she was, she stamped on her trademark haughty-bitch glare and wrapped up the conversation.

But he knew.

“Darling!”

Lovely. Just a glorious, fan-fucking-tastic time for her mother to show up.

Hera breezed into the room with her usual glowing demeanor. Her robes were inlaid with thick strands of gold, her dark hair coiled in an elaborate updo. While she loved her mother truly and completely—the only immortal in her entire existence Enyo could claim those feelings for—this was so not a good time.

“You look upset, darling. What’s wrong?”

How to play this one? Her mother could sniff out a lie faster—and more accurately—than anyone she knew.

“Work’s been a bit challenging lately.” Not a lie. In fact, rather accurate, if the truth be known.

Hera took a seat on the couch and patted the empty cushion next to her. “I know you hate when I say this, but you really need to find yourself a man.”

“Mother. I realize you’re the goddess of marriage. And as such, you believe it’s the answer to every ill.” Enyo took the seat next to her mother, leaning over and laying her head on the shoulder that always waited for her. Always soothed, no matter how far away from the cradle she got.

“Yes, but maybe if you took the focus off your job.”

She held back the sigh, attempting reason in the face of such implacable belief. “It’s the definition of my life, Mother. I am the goddess of war.”

“Yes, darling, but look around.”

Enyo followed her mother’s hand as she pointed to various decor choices around the room.

“A guillotine, Enyo? Really? Must you advertise what you do like that? How quickly do you think a man is going to warm up in here if he knows there’s an instrument of death sitting in the corner?”

“It’s a human instrument of death, Mother. Besides, you only want me to see immortals.”

“That’s beside the point. It’s creepy.”

“It’s me, Mother.”

“That it is.”

Enyo resettled herself against Hera’s shoulder and considered how to broach her questions. Although Emmett had caught her off guard, she wasn’t completely without intel herself.

“Mother, do you remember that time—? Oh, it’s been years now. There was a sorcerer who captured several immortals.”

She felt her mother stir, felt the slight head nod as her mother’s body shifted with the movement.

“Yes, I do. It was a dark, dark time for us. Your father wouldn’t let me off Mount Olympus. You remember it too, don’t you?”

Sadly, Enyo remembered very little of it. She’d gained back quite a bit of power during the Middle Ages, the plagues and terrors of that time putting several win marks in her favor in her ongoing battle with Themis’s Warriors.

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