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“Ariadne?” he called. “Are you awake?”
He waited for her reply, but he heard nothing from the other side of the door, which made him uneasy.
“I’m sorry about yesterday. I didn’t mean to make you feel like I don’t respect or value you. I…” He hesitated. “I think you’re…great.”
He paused and still heard nothing.
Then he pressed his ear against the door and listened hard. Even if she was just ignoring him, he should hearsomething.
“Ariadne,” he said and tried the door. It was locked. He banged on the door again. “Ari, answer the fucking door!”
His heart started to beat harder in his chest the longer the silence progressed.
“I’m coming in,” he said, ramming his body into the door. He burst through to find an empty room.
He stood there for a moment, gaze sweeping the familiar but empty space. He crossed to the bed and threw the blankets off, but she wasn’t beneath. He checked the bathroom and the closet, but each were empty.
She was gone.
“Fuck!”
Dionysus paced the length of Hades’s office at Nevernight.
He raged. His body was shaking. He had not felt this kind of hysteria in a long while. He knew where Ariadne had gone—to confront Poseidon about Medusa. She hadthreatened to go herself; she’d told him he was moving too slow.
Fuck.
“You were supposed to watch her!” he had roared at the maenads he had posted outside his home.
They glared back at him, just as angry.
“We did,” snapped Makaria.
“Then why is she gone?”
“Perhaps she is more skilled than we thought,” said Chora.
He should have checked on her sooner, but he had wanted to give her privacy and space.
Fuck privacy. Fuck space.
He whirled toward Hades when he appeared and gave him no time to ask questions.
“Ariadne has gone to confront Poseidon,” he said. “She thinks he has Medusa.”
“Does he?” Hades asked.
“Does it matter?” Dionysus snapped.
Hades narrowed his eyes.
“No, he doesn’t have Medusa,” Dionysus said, frustrated. “I would go to her, but I cannot teleport to his realm without being invited. I need your help.”
Hades was one of the three who had control over all realms.
“Are you certain she has gone to him?”
“Yes,” Dionysus hissed. “Hades, he will hurt her.”
