Page 232 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

That Word

It was a cruel haunting.

The story of my childhood destroyed,

the trauma of my parents lost,

all connected to that one word,

a single, three-letter word:

War .

Of course there had been wars

between mortals,

the Gods ensured it.

But this?

This was different.

I knew without Hermes telling me

that this was a darker thing.

Another war between immortals

that could devastate the

order of everything we had become used to.

A part of me was terrified.

And yet there was a smaller part,

a vengeful, simmering fury

that looked at his fear,

the same panic he and his had inflicted

on my family and thought,

Good.