Daughter of Asteria (The Daughter Trilogy) (49 page)

all good things end in time, for soon, pretty Aphrodite, you’ll be mine.”

A snarling, flame-consumed hound saunters through while dripping fire from his salivating mouth

as he stares at the picture of the dark-haired beauty propped against the wall.

Such beauty shouldn’t exist, and the power she possesses is even more impressive than her

striking appearance.

Those eyes aren’t tainted by fear anymore, but that plays perfectly into the hands of the ones she

doesn’t know exists. A dark-haired Aphrodite, who would have ever dreamt such a thing?

They knew of her though. They’ve been waiting on such an anomaly for centuries. They knew

she’d come with her gifted green eyes and perfectly sleek, dark hair, and now they need her.

“Abaddon, I think it’s almost time to meet our little prodigy girl. What do you think?” she asks

the flaming mutt.

He nods as a growling emerges deep within his throat, and malice stirs in his fiery eyes as the

flames surrounding his dark body grow in intensity.

“Easy, boy,” she coos. “We don’t need her dead just yet. Safina should have listened to me. I

told her this was the girl, but she overlooked her too carelessly. That’s okay though. I never liked that

power-hungry bitch. She had too much handed to her. She never had to work for her abilities as I

have. She never had the discipline to rule as I do either.”

Abaddon releases his beastly, dark bark as he adds to the malevolent conversation.

“You’ll be by my side. We just have to find a way to release the great one, and then the world

will crumble for us. First, we’ll need to resurrect your old friends though,” she says with her ominous

laughter breaking free.

The flaming hound seems to smile as he turns to walk back toward her and takes his place at her

side like a rabid loyalist.

“They never thought to look for the one blocking the visions to Safina. They’re too blinded by the

victory, but that triumphant taste will sour soon. Safina was nothing compared to me, and she was

ever barely a shadow in comparison to the great one. This girl will fall before us soon, and we’ll own

this world as we should. Let’s get ready. We’ll have company soon,” she releases with more eeriness.

Abaddon nods again as she stands and drops her knitting project to the rocking chair where she

sat. She walks to the far corner to start weaving a natural cage with the poison meant for only one

type of goddess.

“We’ll move to our new home soon. Somewhere they’ll never look. Safina deserved to die for

her insolence. She didn’t believe in the prophecy even when the dark-haired beauty stared her in the

face, and the one foreseen to kill the great one put her in her place.

“I told her to keep the Aphrodite alive. I told her I needed her, but she didn’t listen. She didn’t

care about me or what I’ve seen. She didn’t care about me at all even though I’m the one who freed

her from her imprisoning tomb. She refused to heed my warning, and that miserable speck is now

dead.”

The snarling hound agrees with her as the flames part for him to pick up a vine to bring to her.

She smiles appreciatively as she takes it and adds it to her weave.

“The prophecy is real, and they’ll soon see. Though it won’t be they who walk away victoriously.

The thirst I have will finally be quenched. My power will be revived when I’m thoroughly drenched.

The fountain will breathe with new life again. My true strength will return to me only then. Her fears

will hide with a false sense of security, but they’ll return to strip her dignity. Her worst fear is known,

and all of it resides around one man’s life. Soon it’ll multiply when she becomes his doting wife.

Though a mortal wedding is all they’ll ever share, for the bonding will be forsaken when I get there.

“Little by little her insecurities will emerge, and that’s when I’ll dig my claws into her. She’ll

give me what I need while she’s broken and in tears, and that will happen when reality meets her

fears. Their break will come, oh, it’ll come soon. Then and only then will my dreams come true.”

Book III,
Daughter of Kaos, is on Kindle now!

• Chapter 1 Reliving the Storm
  
• Chapter 2 The Breaking Damn
  
• Chapter 3 Assembling the Troops
  
• Chapter 4 Vegas Baby
  
• Chapter 5 Divided Compromise
  
• Chapter 6 Solitary Confinement
  
• Chapter 7 One Hot Mess
  
• Chapter 8 Begging back immortality
  
• Chapter 9 Broken to Badass to broken
  
• Chapter 10The Jealously Game
  
• Chapter 11Raising Hell
  
• Chapter 12No One Stays Dead Anymore
  
• Chapter 13 Trouble in Paradise
  
• Chapter 14Until Death
  
• Chapter 15Counting Down
  
• Chapter 16 Against all odds
  
• Chapter 17 The dark eyes