SIXTY TWO

HELIOS’ POV

I had waited for this moment all my life. Every time the full moon came to torture me, I would curse her name. And with every single waking moment, I would plot how to take her life, in return for robbing father’s. I had lived for this moment, I had lived to avenge father and all that I held dear.

With my strength and speed, I should have been able to kill her in a blink of an eye. It should have been easy. But not once did I expect it to be this hard. Even after all the pain she had caused, a part of me, my inner child still longs for his mother.

She stares back at me in the rain. It is up to me to make a conversation.

“I have come to kill you,” I say. Not exactly a heartwarming greeting.

She merely nods. “I know.”

Lightning cracks once more but she remains standing motionlessly in the rain. Why is she not getting ready to fight?

I raise an eyebrow. “Did you leave the pendant at Crimsonhill on purpose?”

She nods again. She smiles a little and poses a question of he