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“Here’s the thing about your perfect mate,” Zeus’s voice was a low growl in my ear. No one would hear him but me. “He told Zephyr if he didn’t cleave from the pack, he’d release all the dirt he had on us. Ruin us.”
Still, I fought, and Zeus’s hand dropped from my mouth, closing instead around my wrist, shoving me closer to Ebony.
It was inches away from its last stroke.
“And then do you know what he did a few months later?Afterhe’d destroyed my brother?” Zeus hissed. “He released it anyway.”
My blood turned to ice as I felt the victory from him down the bond.
“An eye for an eye, Love? I will do to your pack what he did to mine.”
That had been the deal.
I knew, in that moment, the truth.
The truth of the deal, of his confidence last night: Zeus wouldn’t give me up. He never would have. Even if Ebony cleaved, I wouldn’t be theirs.
Only… Ebony wasn’t just cleaving, he was dying. I knew it in my soul.
My mate was dying.
Tears blurred my vision.
I wouldn’t let it happen.
I’d fought for this. Fought never to be here so she would be proud. I’d sworn I would never again helplessly watch as someone I loved was threatened.
“Hide, and never sing louder than a whisper, my sweet Lily.”
So I sang, with my hands around my ears. “There’s a bird in the storm and nobody knows…”
I whispered on, a vicious aura around me, a storm outside this time.
My fear was too much.
And that last line, the one I’d never spoken since I’d forgotten to whisper.
The closet door was ripped open and in spilled the light of the living room beyond. A flash of lightning through the window.
I could hear my mother pleading with him, telling me to run, but he told me not to leave.
I don’t remember much.
I remember he was drunk.
I remember I was afraid.
And then my mother was there, a trembling fist clutching a knife to his neck.
Only… he’d laughed.
“You can’t do it, Trinity.” He stepped into the blade and she flinched back. “You can’t, not even to protect her.”
Like this, he wasn’t someone I recognised.
I stumbled back.
But it wasn’t me who’d been hit.
