Styx (Goddesses of the Underworld #2)

188. ‘It Could All Be Yours, Styx’

‘It Could All Be Yours, Styx’

Metis’s gentle coaxing voice

whispered like a viper in my ear.

‘Everything you could ever want;

everything you have ever desired.

So close. All you must do is say yes,

and your children and consort

will have Zeus’s protection.

You will be a Goddess,

given the respect, the love,

the fear, you have always deserved.’

When I did not respond, she sighed.

‘I will leave this for you to consider.

Just know that by choosing us,

you are still choosing family.

Know that there are other kin

who have taken this choice.’

Before I could ask who,

Metis rose in all her gold finery,

and with a clever flick of her wrist,

she was gone.