Heph: Modern Descendants 3 by elda lore

Author:elda lore [lore, elda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-02T18:30:00+00:00

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Downstairs was a bevy of activity despite the late hour. Seraphine spoke to Adara in the breakfast room while I quietly gathered some leftovers for my midnight dinner.

“He loved you,” Seraphine said.

“I was too late.” Adara’s sad tone froze my motion of scooping out salad on a plate. “When he told me, I didn’t tell him that I felt the same. I panicked. If he knew the truth of why I wanted to leave, he wouldn’t have felt the same way about me.”

“You didn’t know that. You should have trusted him. You trusted him with everything else.” Seraphine’s husky voice sent home the image of Heph with Adara, and I released the lettuce between the tongs in my grasp. I didn’t need to hear this. Heph had assured me it was over, and I had to believe him.

“What about you?” Adara chuckled without much humor. “That was quite the greeting.”

I imagined Seraphine shrugging a shoulder and tipping her head to swipe back the dark hair with blue streaks. Her eyes matched the color, and the wideness of them would tease back at Adara.

“It was nothing. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen him. Hades was there for me at a low point.”

The silence for a beat assured me they understood one another.

“We’ve all been there.” Adara’s voice fell softer, and I wondered if there were more details to Adara’s escape than I knew. Her youngest sister was almost raped by the drunken slob who was Ashin’s husband. Adara killed him when she couldn’t get him off her sister. Eshne recovered enough over time from the experience, and I’d learned she didn’t want to stay at Hestia’s. She didn’t possess the gift, and being here was a constant reminder of what had happened, when all she wanted was to live a normal life and forget the whole situation. Ashin, on the other hand, felt beholden to her older sister for saving her from a difficult marriage. Unsupervised at a young age, she’d made a huge mistake in accepting his proposal. Adara claimed she had her own issues at the time, but rectified the situation when it all came to a boiling head.

“You still need to go,” Seraphine said to Adara.

“I know. But I don’t know how. I don’t know where to even begin to look.”

“Heph would still help you.”

“He would,” Adara sighed. “But I can’t ask him. His interests lay other places.”

“Phyre?” I straightened at the sound of my name and left my dinner plate on the edge of the counter.

“I see the way he looks at her, like he used to look at me. I gave that up because I was afraid to tell him the truth.”

“He’d understand. Tell him now.”

“I can’t.”

What truth? I spun at the pressure of eyes on me. Spinning back, I saw Ember leaning against the dining room door frame. Our eyes locked for a second as I was caught eavesdropping on sisters.

“He won’t last with Phyre any longer than he was with you,” Seraphine spoke confidently.

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