Styx (Goddesses of the Underworld #2)

72. Applause Broke Out Through the Halls

Applause Broke Out Through the Halls

It was as if the very air inside me

had died and all that was left

was an abyss of confusion.

I stared at my father’s face

as he steadfastly looked at the audience.

How could he do this?

How could he expect me to marry

this God I had only just met?

We had not exchanged five sentences.

I looked to Pallas but he was

surrounded by well-wishers.

His brother offered me a kind smile

in his stead. Did Perses already know?

Did no one think to inform me?

Was I so very small to my parents

that telling me first didn’t matter at all?