Rising Tides by Carrie Humphrey

Author:Carrie Humphrey [Humphrey, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-05-06T05:00:00+00:00

Theo

Screaming in frustration, Theo suddenly found himself at the bottom of the ocean, wrapped in a fishing net that very closely resembled the one that had brought him into the cursed waters he now lived. Thrashing, he kicked and howled, inhaling water into his lungs and throwing him into a wild panic.

The mortality he had lost long ago seemed to have come back, only to be ripped away again. “Stop screaming you idiot,” he heard a voice shout. Desperation ignored the command as he continued to fight for his life, all logic that he was already dead leaving him completely.

Strong arms grabbed him around his torso, holding his body completely still as the fear he had been drowning in lost its hold. Unable to move, Theo blinked his eyes over and over, clearing his vision, which cleared his thoughts at the same time.

Steadying himself even further, he looked over his body and watched as the fishing nets began to fade. Another blink and they were gone completely, leaving nothing surrounding him aside from the ocean floor and James, who still had a vice grip on his body.

After another moment, Theo’s body was released, though he didn’t move. He had never, not in three thousand years, experienced his death again, and hoped like hell that he never would.

“What was that?” he demanded of the ocean.

“Do you remember your death? Of your curse Poseidon bestowed on you?” James asked. Theo turned his body to face his friend and shook his head.

“No,” he said through gritted teeth. “I don’t. Why would I want to remember that?”

“Because it’s important. The Gods do not do anything without an added complication. Did you honestly think you’d be cursed to live here with the rest of us without some violent loophole that would give a sick pleasure of satisfaction to the God who had created it?”

Theo froze. He didn’t want to relive the moment he took his last human breath and saw the face of the God that would condemn him forever. He had no intention of ever going back to that moment, except it seemed that he would have too.

“Crap,” he muttered as he opened the flood gates to the past. Jerking as the memories overwhelmed him, he tried to focus on words he might have heard. At the time, he couldn’t have cared less what was said or why. He still didn’t care, but apparently, it mattered.

Poseidon’s voice flowed through him, his own mouth saying the cursed words for the first time. “For all the wrongs you walk alone with a bitter understanding, that love and life are without mercies. Truly you’ll never know, until you share your pain with a soul so pure, you’ll either bring them death or freedom. To choose between you and another will end of it all, but can you choose? Can you stop the waves of change and redirect the fates, to bring your immortal soul back to the land of mortality? Bring the sea within you and live in its cursed waters.

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