Violet

I didn’t understand what was going on, but if Sierra was the way to some of the answers I’d been desperately searching for, then I was going to take it.

She looked at me like I was already caught in her mousetrap, a little toy trapped in her cage, and she intended to have all the fun she wanted before letting me out. Her smile was wicked, and it made my palms damp.

I swallowed hard. “You said you and Hades were cousins, but then you said it was complicated.”

For a moment, her expression froze, then melted into a grin. “Ah. That was not what I expected as...