Page 58 of Hekate: The Witch (Goddesses of the Underworld #1)

‘Why Did You Come Here?’

His question was quiet

but I could feel the curiosity

and the fire behind it.

I folded my arms around myself.

A sudden feeling of cold

was inside my very bones.

‘I thought I heard my mother.’

I said this quietly,

‘Behind those doors.’

He turned and looked at the doors,

the pool of soft light

that flowed from them.

When he looked back at me

his dark-bright eyes were softer,

and he spoke more gently.

‘That is the world of the dead.

Your mother is not there.

She is an island in a stormy sea.’