Page 226 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

Her Name

It did not wound me to hear it.

Like her memory,

it had become a dull ache.

But Demeter’s words

awakened something else

within me.

Only a mother

could truly understand

another mother’s pain.

My jaw set as I realized

precisely where

I needed to go.

I took Demeter’s hands

in mine and kissed them,

an unspoken promise.

Then I made my way to the cave

that would lead me there.

To Styx’s abode.