Page 17 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

Fear

I stared at my mother’s hunger-sharpened face

and then back at the cold, fanged Goddess

that stood before us.

My voice was small, desperate and scared.

‘Mother, please don’t leave me.

You can’t leave me here !’

Without breaking eye contact

with Styx, she took my hand

and squeezed it and said,

‘Hush, my love,

my only child.

Let your aunt speak.’