Chapter 66
Salvation…Or Ruin?
LYRA
I’m enveloped in the terrible, endless silence I’m becoming so familiar with.
When I open my eyes, I’m standing in Tartarus among the sleeping Titans, and I’ve never felt so…alone.
He hates me.
I could see it in his eyes, the words he used, the way he held himself away from me like I was poison.
The only thing that kept me from total despair was knowing where our story ends, but… What if I’m wrong?
What if what I just did, what I told him changes everything?
I didn’t reset time. Gods, my heart was pounding so hard every second of that encounter, I’m surprised it didn’t burst from my chest to land at my feet in a bloody pulp.
But what if the future of us is different when I get out of here now?
What if I ruined us?
A hand slips into mine, and I look down into Persephone’s questioning gaze. “Okay?” she asks softly.
And…I nod.
Not because it’s okay. I don’t know if it’s okay.
But at least I know the truth now. If I’m certain of anything, it’s this… I am the one pulling my own strings. Or trying to.
Our pasts…and our futures, whatever those might be now…are in my hands.