Styx (Goddesses of the Underworld #2)

194. Pallas Finally Stopped Pacing

Pallas Finally Stopped Pacing

and approached me on the bed.

He gently touched Kratos’s watchful face.

‘I know you wish to believe that, Styx,’

he said sorrowfully to me.

‘But I think your father is wily enough

to understand we are losing this war.

I think Zeus has made him an offer,

and he has chosen to take it.’

I considered my next words carefully.

‘If that is true,’ I hesitated, then spoke,

‘then my father is not the only one

that Zeus has made such an offer to.’

Pallas’s eyes met mine.

‘What are you saying?’