This is what we’d been looking for, what Lula and I had spent all these years hunting.
The monster who had torn our souls apart, taken our lives and locked us into following Route 66, the magical pathway that had carried supernaturals and monsters across the United States for a hundred years.
“Where?”I asked.
“Who?”Lula asked.
Cupid’s fingers tapped the tabletop as he looked between us.
“You’ve been working with him for years.Lula, you collected magical items for him.”
“No,” I breathed, knocked back by the horror of it, the injustice of it.
“Headwaters?”Lula growled.
“Headwaters,” Cupid agreed.
CHAPTERFIVE
Lula stood so quickly, she was a blur.She drew her lips back in a snarl, her hands in fists.She was wrath, she was hellfire.
“How long?”she demanded.“How long have you known it was Headwaters?”
“Not long,” Cupid said.“Only after my battle with Atë.”
“Weeks?”she growled.“You waited weeks to tell me?”
“Lu,” I warned.
She couldn’t hear me, deafened by the rage, the helplessness, the hunger for revenge.We’d spent a hundred years longing to kill the creature who had done nothing but cause us pain.
To find out the same creature had been toying with us all these years was infuriating.
“I waited,” Cupid said, “because if you kill Headwaters—which I know you want to do—it will kill you.You and Brogan, both.”
“That—what?”I spun toward Cupid.“How?”
Lula took a step back from the table, clumsy, blinded by hatred, the back of her legs knocking over the chair.
“Don’t,” she hissed at him.“Don’t youdaretake this from me.”
“Lu.”I reached for her.“Love.”
But she couldn’t see me.Not through the outrage.Not through the memories.Not through the pain.
She shook her head and stormed out of the room, every inch of her brittle with anger.
I took a step, but Hadomewed, jumped off Abbi’s lap, and trotted after her.
“Give her time,” Eunice said, scooping the whipped cream into a smaller bowl.“She’s safe here.She won’t leave you behind.”
I wasn’t so sure.She had made decisions to leave me behind before.I started toward the door, but Abbi slipped her hand into mine.
“Hado will tell me if anything happens.”Her eyes were huge and pleading, holding all of the galaxy’s stars like rivers of light.“We need answers, right?”
I scrubbed my other hand over my face.
I hated this.All of it.I didn’t know what our future might be—if we would even have a future beyond killing Headwaters and getting rid of the book—but if I had any say, our future would be far, far away from monsters and gods.
