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I couldn’t help but smile, even though I was terrified. “Where is Lucius?”
Her smile fell into a frown. “We will be dealing with him after we find Raiden.”
We walked the corridor, occasionally jolting at the sound of a screech or pummeling against one of the doors. Thalia touched each one, but I had no idea what she was feeling for. “I’m sorry about Aziel,” I said after we’d walked for several minutes.
“Thank you. My brother is lucky to have you.”
“I don’t think he thinks that.”
“He does,” she said simply. “When Leda died, he was heartbroken. Freya broke him, and I didn’t think he would ever be able to be happy again. Then we were locked away in our prisons and that was it. I thought I’d lost him.”
“Freya’s dead,” I explained, hoping it brought her some peace. Leda was her sister too.
She looked at me. “You are now goddess of the hunt, so I assume you’re the one who killed her.”
“I am.”
“How do you feel about it?”
I swallowed thickly. “I’m sorry, I don’t understand. I mean, she was a bad person.”
“She was still a person. We must all work through something when taking a life, whether it is good or bad. There is a unique feeling that comes with taking a soul.”
I fumbled my fingers, my lips parting. “It was Alexander, her lover, who got me,” I admitted, finally letting it sink in. “He’d done bad things, but I don’t know.” I scratched the back of my neck. “He didn’t feel bad. Does that make sense?”
“It makes perfect sense.”
“He would have hurt my sister and hunted us,” I said before she could judge me, though I got the sense she wasn’t like that. “I had to kill him. Right? I also did it for you.”
“If you want to hear you did the right thing, I can’t tell you that. Only you can decide. You need to find peace with it yourself.”
I nodded and slowed my pace. We’d passed a hundred more doors. “Wait.” I halted, my eyes widening when the sound reached my sensitive ears. A low growl, a cuss word… I’m sure he’d hate to admit it, but Thalia was right. “He’s here.” I walked ahead, focusing on his breathing. “Is he… crying?” I swore I could hear it, but he didn’t cry. He had never.
I opened the door, certainty guiding me as his heart rate picked up. As soon as I pushed it all the way open, he lunged at me, and we both rolled onto the floor.
Lifting his hand, his bloodshot eyes latched onto mine, his dark eyebrows furrowing. “Elle.” He quickly moved from on top of me. “How?”
I looked around. “Tha?—”
She was gone.
“Your sister was here.”
“Thalia?”
She stepped out from a shadow. “Brother.”
I placed my hand against my chest. “You scared me. I thought I’d hallucinated you for a second.”
She hugged Raiden and stepped back. “Now that you’re safe, I need your help, brother.”
His shoulders tensed. “Anything.”
“We’re going to kill our father.”
My stomach dipped. All of this, and he was going to rule the underworld anyway and take his place. “No,” I said, interrupting. “We can seal this place, and all of us leave. Now.”
“I’m sorry,” she replied. “He killed our brother and sister. He must pay. He cannot be left to rule here.”
