Chapter 21
The next couple of weeks went by smoothly, and Hera never reached out to Poseidon again. As much as she wanted to, the fallout from the confrontation with their mother had left her completely on edge. She couldn’t risk sending another message on the off chance that either her mother or Raelynn would catch her in the act. Taking no chances, she went so far as to completely wipe the hard drive of her secret laptop, destroying any digital footprint just in case they decided to start snooping through her things.
With Hera’s birthday right around the corner, she had been secretly saving every penny she made from her part-time job after school. It was a modest nest egg, but it was exactly what she needed to execute her plan: getting as far away from the pack as possible the moment s
