Page 161 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

‘You Will Go Nowhere’

It was like his voice had turned to poison.

Where his tone once dripped

with melancholy, it was now ancient,

laced with the razor-edge of cruelty.

I stayed very still, as though an animal,

believing if I did not move,

my predator may not see me.

‘But I must leave.’ I could hear the panic

in my own voice. Oh how naive

I had been, I should have run

when I saw him. ‘Please,’

I pleaded quietly, the flask clutched

between my fingers as though

a talisman of protection.

I felt the cave swim

and expand before my eyes.

‘No.’ There was pure venom

in his words now. ‘Too long

I have been alone in these caves,

no wife or daughter to care for me.

YOU will be my new consort,

and tend to my every need.’

I gasped. ‘I am not yet old enough

to even know my own powers!’

Kronos scoffed. ‘You do not need powers,

if all you are going to do is serve me.’

My blurred vision could make out

his shape advancing towards me.

Like a wolf about to pounce

onto its prey.