The door had been closed for several minutes. I was still sitting where the king had left me. I couldn't move or breathe properly. I couldn't even think normally. His words kept repeating inside my head.
The curse isn't real.
I squeezed my eyes shut beneath the blindfold. No.
That couldn't be true. It couldn't. King Samael was only trying to deceive me.
For months, I had believed that Hades was cursed. Even he had also believed that. I knew the constant fear I lived in whenever I heard the full moon was approaching.
I'd heard the stories about the women who had become his mates. He had kept his distance at the beginning because of the curse and I only realized that after we started getting close.
He was terrified he of losing the people he cared about. I'd thought his fear came from something ancient and unavoidable. But Samael had just stood in front of me and told me it was all a lie.
