Warfire (Sons of Olympus Book 3) by Sam Burns & W.M. Fawkes

Author:Sam Burns & W.M. Fawkes [Burns, Sam & Fawkes, W.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-01-18T00:00:00+00:00

ADRIAN

Harmonia was⁠—

Gods, she was gorgeous and bright and Adrian felt a little like a vampire who hadn’t seen the sun in a century, slipping on one of Hephaestus’s magic rings and stepping into the light, blinking and overwhelmed and a little afraid.

Because, well, she was Harmonia. It wasn’t like Adrian knew a ton about the whole pantheon of gods and goddesses who were all, apparently, real, but what he did know was that she was ancient, she was powerful, and she was Ares’s daughter.

Adrian was . . . he wouldn’t say he was bad at relationships, so much as he’d never had a real one. Invariably, he got himself too twisted up in trying to make the other person happy. He’d model himself after what he thought they wanted, and most people got confused, or felt some distance, and things fell apart.

Because, yeah, at the end of the day, by trying to please everyone, Adrian had put some parts of himself aside. He wasn’t intentionally lying, but he was lying all the same, and it created a wall he didn’t know how to bring down.

He wasn’t sure if it was the dragon inside him, who’d known Ares for longer than Adrian could even fathom, or if it was just knowing that Ares was a god and so much more powerful and capable of grasping what he wanted than Adrian could ever be, but it was easier to be honest with Ares. He didn’t feel like he had to hide. Maybe he could admit that he was afraid and he didn’t know what to do, without getting defensive when he made a mistake.

And then, he met the guy’s daughter, and he felt like a damned fool for not polishing his image better. She was perfect, Ares was obviously way out of his league, and he kicked himself mentally for trying to hold onto something he couldn’t possibly keep.

Only, Ares smiled at him, and Adrian’s heart did a strange little flip in his chest, and he hoped maybe he would actually get a talking to from a terrifying goddess. He hoped he lasted that long. He hoped this . . . meant what he felt like it meant.

But in the short-term, he was just glad Harmonia seemed to like him, was grateful to him for doing what felt like the bare fucking minimum.

“So . . . ” Harmonia grimaced when they got onto the elevator. She pressed the button for the top floor like she knew where they were going. “I maybe did a bad?”

Ares lifted his brow, and she shrugged.

“Not a bad. Just, well, I told Anteros I was coming to visit? And he told Heph, so, uh, they wanted to come?” Harmonia’s head tipped back and forth a few times. “No big deal, really. He just said he had something for you. I offered to pick it up, but . . . I think he maybe wanted to see you?”

Was that a big deal? The furrow on Ares’s brow said it meant something.

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