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not to want. Learned not to remember.
    At least he wasn’t degrading or torturing her like they’d done to him.
    â€œYou’d better get used to it here. Soon there won’t be a home for you to return to.”
    She was aghast. “You would kill your own mother?”
    There was nothing but coldness inside him where the goddess Styx was concerned. “My mother was the one who stripped my powers from me and turned me out into the world. What do you think?”
    â€œI think your mother should be beaten for her cruelty and probably Zeus, too, but the rest of us shouldn’t have to die because the two of them were wrong.”
    Yes, but that wasn’t good enough to appease his anger. Not by a long shot. “You know nothing about revenge.”
    â€œYou’re right. I don’t. All I know is how to protect people. It’s all I’ve ever done.”
    â€œBecause you’re a mindless automaton.”
    She lifted her chin. “Better a mindless automaton who protects than a rampaging murderer without any regard for others. Just because my emotions were bound, it doesn’t make me mindless any more than you were while you carried out Zeus’s punishments before your banishment. Hephaestus told me how he begged you not to hurt Prometheus. Yet you stood over Hephaestus, making him shackle the god to the rock so that he could be torn apart every single day for the rest of eternity.”
    â€œAnd you see how well that turned out. Believe me, I have paid dearly for my mindless obedience. If I could go back, I would have driven my sword through Zeus when I had the chance.”
    Delphine put her hands up and choked the air between them. “But you didn’t. You did the right thing, and now I ask you to do the right thing again. Join our side in this battle. Don’t let evil take over the world.”
    He laughed bitterly. “You do realize that the one and only time in my life I did the right thing, I was cursed for it? That fact doesn’t really motivate me to repeat the experience. When Zeus asked if any god would stand up for me, they all turned their backs. They’re the ones who started this. All of them. Now I intend to finish it and them. The world be damned.”
    â€œAnd it will be,” she said choking on the hopeless grief that welled up inside her. “It will be.” She drew a deep breath before she spoke again. “Then what will become of you?”
    â€œDoes it matter?”
    â€œIf it doesn’t matter to you, how could it possibly matter to someone else?”
    He curled his lip. “Don’t twist my words with your bullshit psychology. No one likes me. Boo-hoo. I really don’t give a shit. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have an army to meet and train.” He vanished.
    Delphine expelled a long breath as the air around her cleared. His anger and pain was so thick, it was virtually tangible.
    What would it take to reach him?
    Was it even possible?
    But the saddest part was that she couldn’t blame him even a little for his reaction. What had been done to him had been wrong. Unforgivable. How would she have reacted in his place? To save a life and have it ruin yours …
    The trade-off seemed so unfair.
    And the clock was ticking. Time would be up soon.
    If he can’t be turned, he must be destroyed.…
    There was no other way.

CHAPTER 4
    This time Jericho found noir in the war room with no sign of Azura. Dressed in his burgundy armor, the primordial god was sitting in a chair with his legs propped up on the table and his ankles crossed. His eyes were half-opened, his fingers laced as his hands rested on his stomach.
    If Jericho didn’t know better, he’d think Noir had been napping.
    â€œYou want something?”
    Jericho paused at the gruff words. Even though Noir hadn’t added an insult to the end, they were said with enough contempt that it was more than implied.
    â€œAzura told me I