PERSEFONE POV
I felt Pluto’s fur brush my arm, his warmth spreading into me. Grounding me.
But I knew.
I knew exactly what I was saying.
The prophecy hummed inside my bones.
Her howl shall heal the broken.
Her fury shall shatter the unworthy.
I could feel both truths in my hands.
I could stop the blood in Ermes’s veins. I could restart his heart with one clean pulse of gold. I could burn him from the inside until his body failed, then drag him back before death could keep him.
Healing and ruin.
Salvation and punishment.
One power.
One choice.
Eden pressed against my skin.
‘Do it now’
Ermes must have seen something in my face, because for the first time, he stopped trying to sound wounded or reasonable or betrayed by my lack of gratitude. He wasn’t even just panicking.
He w
