My head spun, the 2 very separate tales connecting—the Darkness at the start of creation and Erebus, who saved my mate and cared for her till she was in a position to return to us. She—

“You met a primary being?” I demanded, my voice shrill. “What the fuck, Haley?”

“If you already know tales about Erebus, possibly you already know tales about Cronus too, proper? What have you learnt concerning the god of time?”

I swallowed, resistant. I did not wish to tarnish the tales my mum instructed me by connecting them to the cunt who killed my mate.

“Kai,” Haley murmured, stroking fingers via my hair and sending a ripple of sensation down my backbone.

“He was the ruler of all beings, after he slew the Sky.” I groaned and felt like a fucking fool. “Cronus killed his father Uranus, the god of the Sky. Fuck!” How was this so rattling apparent after I mentioned it out loud?

“It is okay,” Haley soothed, nothing however calm and love in her storm-grey eyes. “You were not in search of titans in your tales; after all you would not realise.”

I ran via all of the tales in my head, my mom’s voice so shut that my throat closed up, the phrases choked. “Time was a jealous being, all the time coveting what others had—land, energy, magic, titles, ladies. He was by no means happy, all the time craving for extra. And he was courageous, robust—in a position to do what others did not dare, like killing his father.”

My abdomen squirmed at badmouthing one of many first beings I’d been taught to respect all my life.

“However he was an excellent ruler, nothing just like the psychopath he’s now. I believe—both our tales are mistaken, and it was by no means a golden age of peace and prosperity when he dominated, or being imprisoned in Tartarus fucked with him.”

“He is jealous and grasping,” Haley mentioned, her fingers sifting via my hair. “We are able to use that. Make him need one thing we now have, spring a entice.”

“He isn’t simply the god of time, Haley, he’s time. Do you have got any thought how a lot he can fuck with us?”

“In keeping with the ink on my again, we are able to fuck with him proper again. We simply must steal one thing and reward some seeds.”

Her phrases did not draw me from my panic a lot as the push of energy I felt via her did.

I paused, holding her tighter. “Cronus helped Locke kill us the primary time as a result of he needed to pay attention your energy,” I mentioned.

“Yup. Fattening me for the slaughter,” she mentioned bitterly.

“You simply—died once more,” I mentioned, my coronary heart beating tougher.

“I do not really feel any totally different,” she replied, reluctant to kill that hope. “However hey, possibly I can develop as large as Cronus and go all shadow-giant, too.”

I nodded absently, tales echoing round and round my head. They have been all I may consider: each bedtime story and fireplace story merging into one thing way more actual than easy folklore. They have been actual—the primary beings. And my mate was fated to kill considered one of them.

I jumped when Haley’s arms settled on my shoulders, manhandling me again into the chair I would been sitting in earlier than she arrived. My ass met the seat arduous, and I frowned at her, not sure the place the darkish gleam in her eye had come from.

“You all the time inform me I believe too arduous,” she murmured, making my coronary heart cease by dropping to her knees in entrance of me. “And I must shut off my thoughts for some time.”

“I do,” I agreed, my voice rougher, deeper. She made a fairly image, her chest naked and her lovely rosy tits on show for me, her tattoos adorning her arms and abdomen, portray her like an paintings as she knelt earlier than me.

However I did not have time to close off my thoughts—we had till tomorrow morning to give you an ironclad plan to get right into a titan’s jail and out once more safely, with out letting him know we have been there. Not that I held a lot religion within the latter half. That is why I wanted to maintain studying, and why I now wanted to sift via each story I would ever been instructed, to pour via each legend residing in my thoughts for a touch or element that may be Cronus’s downfall.

And but … if my mate needed me to sit down right here for her, I’d sit.

“You are still pondering, Kai,” she chided, skimming her arms over my knees and up my thighs. “I can really feel your stress, my evening.”

“We do not have sufficient time,” I mentioned, pushing via the urge to maintain my fears locked up tight. She hated after I did that, and reduction all the time bloomed via her soul at any time when I confessed what was worrying me. “There’s a lot we have to do earlier than we’re able to go, so many variables that might go mistaken and—”

My tongue flicked out with a hiss when she leaned ahead and kissed my bulge, just a few layers of cloth between us. “You are proper; we’re quick on time. Why are we losing it on panic?”

Anticipation tightened each nerve in my physique when Haley reached for the fastening on my trousers, the zip a lot quicker to get undone than the knotted strings of 100 years in the past.

“You know the way it goes,” she mentioned, ensnaring me in eye contact as she reached into the hole in my pants and brushed her fingers over my shaft. I went from semi-hard to aching and determined in a fucking second. “We plan, we study each doable final result and angle, we give you an thought that may’t presumably go mistaken, we get there, and every part that may go mistaken does go mistaken.”

Amusing puffed out of me. She had some extent; I would misplaced observe of the quantity of cock-ups we might made through the years. Issues by no means went based on plan. Not even based on Em’s rigorous planning.

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