ACHILLES: Soul of Her King (Kings of the Blood Book 3) by Julia Mills

Author:Julia Mills [Mills, Julia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Juliette had listened as Lee explained his plan in detail and his brothers played devil’s advocate by poking all the holes they could in it, then suggesting alternatives until her head was spinning and she thought it might just be easier to just give herself up to Ares. It was, after all, her, he was after.

She had listened to Viktor’s argument that her uncle was using her as a pawn to get at her mother, and on some level half-heartedly agreed, but something about it didn’t ring true. There were so many other ways he could have tormented Hebe. It had been a foregone conclusion that the Cupbearer to the Gods and her halfling daughter were never going to be together. Destiny had decided that long before Juliette took her first breath. She was leaving Mt Olympus, never to return. The arrangement of their visits had already been decided and nothing had changed when Ares made his first appearance.

Juliette knew for a fact that her mother had no recognition of the demi-goddess’ deaths, only of her rebirths, so therefore, did not suffer every time it occurred. No, the suffering had been, and if they couldn’t defeat Ares, would always be Juliette’s alone to bear.

Needing some air, the demi-goddess, excused herself, and took a walk along the crater that had once been her dig site. Not only was the intricate plan the Kings were designing to save her and ultimately Lee, from the God of War’s wrath, giving her a headache but for some odd reason she could not get the memory of the death she’d suffered in Kilamanjaro out of her head.

It had been her last death, the one that lead to the rebirth in which Lee recognized her as his mate. Visions of that fateful day had been playing on a loop in her head since Niko’s mention of the Tanzanian mountain range.

Images of the dig site at the base of the Mawenzi cone, the largest of the inactive volcanoes on Mt. Kilimanjaro, swirled through her mind. She hadn’t been working with that specific crew for long. It was one of the hazards of never aging, every twenty or so years, she had to disappear, reinvent herself and start over. Although her name always changed, one thing remained constant, the fact that she would choose some form of archaeology or ancient history as a profession.

Smiling to herself, she thought about all the different hair styles and accents she’d taken on during the years, along with the inventive explanations she’d contrived when someone happened to think they recognized one of her earlier personas. It made her remember that although every lifetime she’d lived ended in tragedy, most of the time the adventure had been worth the pain.

Kilimanjaro had been one of those amazing adventures. She remembered how thrilled she’d been to be asked to be one of the PhD candidates on the dig. It had been hard to act like she didn’t already have ten such degrees from previous

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