The Deep Wild, Part V
Moxie straddled his waist and wiped the blood from her knife onto his cheek. She bared her teeth at him and growled. “No means no.”
Moxie straddled his waist and wiped the blood from her knife onto his cheek. She bared her teeth at him and growled. “No means no.”
“We’re going through the opening and since you like to discover new things, you can go first, brother.”
“Spiders. A lot of spiders. Like a whole nest of really big, gigantic, flesh-eating spiders.”
“I heard all of that, Hebe, and that was totally uncalled for,” he said reproachfully. “Ares has been through enough without you acting like a bitch.
I lost them…holy s***! I mean, I really lost them. I told them I’d be back for them at two. They wanted me to go in with them, but I couldn’t because I’m considered under age by mortals standards.
Now Papaw Cronus knew he didn’t have much time until Nana Rhea would be expecting him, so he used his Titan powers and found were Hestia was hiding.”
“The question is…who?” I said as we left Number Seven. Who would be dumb enough to try and stop the Gods from coming back?
“Well, there’s a small problem that I am hoping you can help me with,” she said. “Someone has broken into your father’s office.”
“Hello, Ares,” Aphrodite said. “It’s so good to see you again.” Like a fool, I
I kept quiet, because it wasn’t often that he admitted I was right about anything. “Why are you really here? It’s certainly not to critique my color choices.”
Even Goddesses have to tuck the children in at night and they don’t always go
I knew that my mother had her hand in this somehow. Very little gets by her and odds were that she was the reason for my summons. I needed to get to the bottom of things before I made the trip to The Mount. Before I spoke to Zeus.