Hero Worship by Amelia Wilde
Author:Amelia Wilde [Wilde, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-08T18:30:00+00:00
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HERCULES
What I want is to be alone with Daisy. In this house. In any house. Thatâs impossible, because her family wonât stop hovering.
I get it. I really do. This situation is worrying. Except I only have one tool, and itâs to dick her down whenever possible. Thatâs hard to do when a bunch of people are standing around with sad, worried faces or else gathering in rooms to have secret strategy meetings.
This doctor or that doctor?
Kidnap their sister or bribe her?
Take everyone to the mountain?
Itâs an endless round of questions and endless people coming in and out of Zeusâs house. Hundreds of questions. Thousands of questions. No, she wonât go to the hospital. Yes, sheâs had this condition since childhood. No, there is no other drug regimen thatâs helped. Even this process is a pain in the ass, because everyone who sits with her has to talk around the painkillers, and what theyâre made from, and how they came to be.
After the incident at the poolâwhich, what the fuckâI start sleeping in her bedroom. Nobody says a word to me about it. Hades watches me when we come downstairs in the morning, like heâs trying to decide if he has to do some stealth-murder, but he never makes any veiled comments.
Every day is a weird combination of family time and extended naps. Daisy keeps trying to paint, but her attention slips away from the canvas. The blue wave on the app stays fuzzy. I feel like it could forget its shape at any time.
Everybody else thinks so, too. I catch Zeus frowning down at his phone at least six times a day. Hades doesnât need an app. He takes one look at Daisy, and the corners of his mouth turn down.
I canât sleep.
I should sleep, but I donât know when the nightmare is going to come again and fuck everything up. It would make sense for it to come when sheâs already asleep, but Iâve seen what it does. Iâve seen how it can drag her in if sheâs tired.
Orâ¦is that changing, too? She didnât seem tired out by the pool. She said she was wide awake.
I catch her staring into space.
Itâs totally understandable, given that sheâs the one whoâs most sensitive to light. Thereâs not a ton of stuff to look at when youâre sitting in the dark. But during conversations, sheâll trail off, looking atâ¦
Nothing.
Itâs been three or four days when she rolls over in the middle of the night. I fucked her slow and quiet for an hour when we got into bed. I thought sheâd be out for the night, but I feel her turn, and then:
âTell me about your friend.â
My heart tries to jump straight over the memory. It trips and falls instead, ending up right in the center of the damn thing. Itâs instinct to buy time.
âWhat friend?â
âOllie.â
âWhat do you want to know?â
âWhere did you meet him?â
âAt boot camp.â I still remember him from that very first day at processing, when we spent eight
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