Eve
"This is between the three of us," Amelia affirmed, adjusting the collar of my blouse. Kael stood beside Hades. I nodded and glanced at the clock. The meeting would begin at eight, and now it had just struck seven fifty-one.
Hades' expression was intense, with an undercurrent of anxiety. His gaze did not stray from me, his lips pressed into a perpetual hard line. "If you don't want to do this, you know I will make sure—"
"I have to do this. I will have to do this at some point, and after this, there will be no more obstacles. It's fate," I murmured. "I promise I will be fine."
"We will be alert," Rhea's voice rippled through my thoughts. "I am with you, and I am not going through this a second time."
I chuckled in my head. "Of course, you're not. I won't hesitate this time. I'll fight if we have to."
"Now you choose to fight," she murmured, bemused.
She was trying to tease me out of my restlessness.
