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He knew the answer, and yet the thought of her sneaking away to Theseus in any capacity made him burn with jealousy.
“No,” she snapped. “I was going to see my sister.”
“Going to see your sister is the same as seeing Theseus,” he said. “Do you really believe he will let you have access to her?”
“No!” she snapped. “But at least she will know I havetried.”
Her eyes glistened with unshed tears, and the sight did something to his chest. He didn’t like it because it made him want to do stupid things for her.
“Did I not agree to help you save your sister?” he asked.
“Hades agreed,notyou,” she said.
He ground his teeth together so hard, his jaw hurt. “He might have agreed to the deal, but we both know I am the one who will have to see it through,” he said.
“If I am such a burden, then let me go,” she said.
“I never said you were a burden.”
“You don’t have to,” she replied, casting her gaze to the floor.
Dionysus just stared. “I’m not interested in rehashing how we came to be at this point or even how we feel about it,” he said. “What’s done is done, and we have work to do. You want to free your sister and take down Theseus, but what you fail to understand is that Theseus is not just one person, and even if he were, he’s a demigod, the son of Poseidon. He’s thousands strong, and to take him down, we will need more.”
“More what?” she asked.
“More of everything,” he said. “More time, more planning, more people, more weapons.”
“I am not preparing for battle, Dionysus,” she said. “I just want my sister.”
“Too bad,” he said. “Because you won’t have her without a war.”
She took a breath, her chest rising sharply, and he tried not to stare too long so she wouldn’t notice how his attention had wandered.
“You have no idea what you stumbled into,” he said.
“So what do you want from me?”
Her question surprised him, but not because of what she asked but because of how it made him feel—aware of both how empty he felt and his desire to fill that void.
But he quickly quashed those thoughts. “We have to find Medusa,” he said.
Medusa was a gorgon who was rumored to be able to turn men to stone with a glance. If true, she would make a valuable weapon. The moment he had heard whispers of her power in the market, he had hired the Graeae to help him find her, but his plan backfired when Detective Alexiou decided to help Theseus and Hera capture the three sisters.
She likely had no idea what she’d been assigned to do when she’d arrived at Bakkheia. Theseus had made a wolf into a sheep, and Dionysus hated to see how well she followed him.
His eyes narrowed.
“What if she does not wish to help you?”
“It’s your job to convince her,” he said.
“I thought you said you did not need her power.”
“In this game, it is not about needing her power, it’s about who gets to it first,” he said. “And you want me to get to her first, I promise you.”
“Why don’t you send your assassins?”
“This is not a job for them,” he said. “She must be convinced that it is best to side with us.”
