Chapter 8 - Hermes

Nyx has been awake for two days. Her eyes glow every time that she speaks with a dark fire. Her aura is stifling, worse than my father’s and he’s one of the most powerful gods on earth.

It’s mostly because she’s not used to her power and she hasn’t been able to calm it down in the presence of others yet. She’s started several hellfires in Hades’s castle, much to his and Persephone’s chagrin and Lucifer’s delight.

“She’s even more powerful than I had dreamed,” he’s said several times, an obvious sense of awe in his voice.

And any time that Lucifer touches her, because she refuses to touch him voluntarily, her power is magnified. It’s evidence of their matebond.

It’s also evidence of how much destruction the two of them could cause. And how powerful any child of theirs could be.

It’s fucking scary. And I realize that any chance that I had of leaving the Underworld without Lucifer’s blessing is gone. Because if he so much as touches Nyx, he could level a good portion of