~ About a week later ~ **************************** "I know we gave you two more months, Poseidon, but this is getting out of hand," Hermes said to me. We were at the gates of Olympus. Dark Mother tried to attack, to get in again. I think she thinks I'm using Ambrose and Epperly to hide Bexley here. "She's becoming a problem for Olympus, and that's something we cannot have." "I understand," I told him. "Do you? Because this keeps happening, and you keep doing nothing." He bit out. "Maybe if you'd let Epperly help, Dark Mother wouldn't be able to see the gates, let alone attack them," I snapped. Hermes scoffed at me. "She's bad blood and mated to a Morningstar," he said. "She-" "She's the blood of Zeus and even absorbed him," I cut him off. "Just because she's mated to a Morningsta

