Sweetbitter Song

Sweetbitter Song

Author: Rosie Hewlett Listening Length: 17h 47m
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Perfect for fans of The Song of Achilles and from the award-winning author of The Witch of Colchis comes a profoundly moving story of two women on the shores of Ithaca, in the shadows of a legendary war, who must face their own battle – one of sisterhood, survival, and a forbidden love that could destroy them both. On...

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Chapter 48

“You don’t have to do this.”

Melanthius ignored me as he ripped two strips of fabric from his tunic and began winding them around his knuckles. His face was set with a grim determination; it lined his forehead, bracketed his downturned mouth, making him look so much older than our thirty-three summers.

He glanced over my head, and I turned to see Eurymachus clapping another slave on the back. I recognized the man as Philoetius, the palace cowherd, though I hadn’t ever shared more than a few words with him. He was shorter than Melanthius but far stockier, with thick-set limbs.

“Melanthius?”