Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

109. ‘And Precisely What Are You Doing Here?’

‘And Precisely What Are You Doing Here?’

I knew from the cold spike

that laced those words

it was Styx, her voice

full of controlled anger.

I turned to her and smiled,

a gesture I knew

would infuriate her.

‘I was listening to a story.’

A frown marred her face

as she looked at me, then past me.

Her words were measured as she asked,

‘And who was telling you this story?’

I turned to where she was looking

but my heart already knew.

The crone was gone

as though she had never

been there at all.