Chapter 58
Well, it was Winter Solstice, and I wasn’t even getting to watch my plan play out.
They told me they were searching the catacombs for me, but so far, they hadn’t found me.
I’d been working my tape against a rock when Edmund wasn’t paying attention and my hands were free. I was just waiting for my moment.
We also got something wrong. Lola might only be able to have kids in the Void where only Radames could go, but she was bonded with the wedgie kid, too.
They were communicating the same way I was with Liam, Khalid, and Lucian.
I could tell because he’d zone out and then do something like he’d been ordered to.
Which meant if anything went wrong outside of these catacombs, Lola didn’t need her phone to order him to kill me. The emoji texts on the burner phones that everyone had been trying to figure out probably meant nothing when they could just talk telepathically.
He zoned out again while he was receiving communication from the mother ship, but something else happened, too. Edwin’s aura turned blood red right around the time I sensed I was about to be in a fight for my life.
While he was getting his orders, I grabbed another rock and started cutting through the duct tape on my feet. I didn’t know how to fight lightning, but I’d be damned if I was going out without a fight. Someone was killing Edward tonight and it might as well be me.
When he came back to the present, he realized I was free and looking for a fight.
“All he had to do was help and this wouldn’t have happened. Now you’re going to die, little girl. I was Zeus. This should be easy,” he said, flinging a bolt of lightning at me.
Except now that I knew he had it, I was prepared for it.
I jumped out of the way and it missed me.
I felt something bubbling up in my stomach.
I was madder than a wet cat at all of this.
They’d murdered several students who caught them meddling with birth control spells.
I was pretty sure Erica was to keep her away from Mazen.
They decided to rape Liam instead of asking for help and this shit for brains could have killed me when he kidnapped me.
They were due a reckoning. I stood up, faced him, and just screamed.
It wasn’t a banshee scream, I was just pissed.
Edmund was Ivar’s size. He could have fought back when Liam was breaking his nose or Elliot and Petros were fucking with him.
He was lying low because he’d been a part of this the whole time and we never saw it.
Whatever he saw on my face terrified the reincarnation of Zeus. He started hysterically screaming and clawing at his face.
“You picked a fight with the Morrigan, little boy.”
I didn’t even have to lay a finger on him. He kept screaming and bashed his own head in against the wall. I picked up a rock and kept hitting until his brains were falling out just to be totally sure. I’d never killed anyone before, but that was satisfying.
The noise tipped off the people searching for me and they stepped through a portal. Professor Theron had a giant, ornate bow and arrow with her and had an arrow nocked.
“What happened here?” she asked.
“I got pissed. He started screaming and slamming his head in the rock. I just helped the rest of his brains come out.”
“You just manifested the Phantom Queen part of the Morrigan. The part of you that can manipulate a battle by instilling terror into people.”
“Well, can someone get me to that clearing? Edward was bonded to Lola and they can talk telepathically. Lola gave the order to kill me, so something went wrong.”
Professor Theron waved her hand, and a portal appeared.
“Go get ‘em. And it’s an honor to fight beside you.”
I marched through not knowing what to expect, but everyone I cared about had better be okay.