Games of the Gods Box Set: Hades House Trials by Nikki Kardnov & Cadence Price

Author:Nikki Kardnov & Cadence Price [Kardnov, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tortoise House Press, LLC
Published: 2021-04-15T04:00:00+00:00

I’m in a fog on our journey back to Hades’s House and I think Haven and my dogs sense it because they give me a lot of space. Every night we camp, Haven conjures me a bed and soft, thick blankets, but I barely sleep.

I keep repeating the Fates’s words over and over in my head, trying to puzzle them together. Haven won’t survive to see the mortal realm.

Which means if he loses the trial, it will be because he died at my hands. That’s the only reason he wouldn’t make it to the mortal realm. Right? My stomach lurches at the thought and I have to fight the surge of panic that begins to overtake my senses.

They specifically said if he loses. Which means it’s not certain he will lose. There’s the possibility that he’ll win and the Fates have told me nothing because it’s me who will be banished to the mortal realm in the end.

I feel tricked.

How can that information be meaningful when it lacks so much meaning?

And worse—why do I suddenly care what happens to Haven? Because we slept together?

I want to blame it on that, that him being inside of me somehow fried my brain, but I know that’s not true.

Days ago, he was taking credit for my victory and I hated his fucking guts and now….

Now I don’t even want to think about what we are.

Thinking about it means facing our eventual fate.

What I do know is that his sudden kindness has me reeling and feeling slightly chafed. I don’t want his kindness. I don’t want to feel anything for him. I don’t want to worry about what will happen to him if I win the trial.

But should I be more worried about what will happen to me if I don’t win?

Haven taking credit for my victory in the maze made it easy for me to decide on what I wanted and I wanted to win to show him up. Now I’m not sure what I want. It’s not like I fit in with Hades’s other descendants. I mean, maybe Monstrat and Max, but they’re an exception not a rule. There’s no way I’m going to find my people among the elite of the Underworld. I’m no one, from nowhere and none of them will ever forget that—even winning the trials won’t change that.

When we crest the hill on our final leg of the journey and Hades’s House comes into view, Haven and I stop to take in the sight. His hands are hooked around the straps of his pack and Tarter and Russ sit quietly at his feet. The sun sets just over his shoulder limning him in golden light. Sweat shines on his forehead and his mouth is just slightly open as he breathes heavily from the exertion.

My chest aches when I look at him.

I’ve never wanted something—someone—so acutely. It’s a visceral feeling in my veins.

I don’t fucking want it.

I want the feeling to go away.

I surge ahead and whistle for my dogs.

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