“Maisey!” Cronus finally shouted my name, but I couldn’t reply, because I was currently in a ton of trouble. The blackness was working its way up my ribcage, to my chest and then up my throat. Just as I found my voice again, ready to scream, the fucking necklace leapt off the ground and attached itself around my throat.
No!#ThisIsSomeAlienBullshit
I yanked at the chain, trying to rip it off, but it only cut into my skin. It was no use.
“NO!” Cronus shouted, suddenly swimming into view.
It was all happening so fast, I couldn’t process it. Everything hurt; it burned like my skin had been set on fire.
“What did you do?!” He sounded upset, his gaze falling to the blackness around my chest, then the necklace, and then … for the first time since I met him, he looked scared.
That’s when I lost my shit.
Tears streamed down my face. “Help!” The blackness was at my chin now, burning up my face as it tried to enter my mouth.
Cronus shook himself, snapping out of his shock, and grasped my cheeks. Blue light shot from his palms, nearly blinding me and coating my skin.
“You will not take her!” he roared to some unseen force as the blue light flared along my jaw and the black inky magic pulled itself away from my body to avoid the light. He held my face, firmly cupped in his hands as the blackness started to … divide itself into pieces. Nine pieces to be exact.
I watched as those nine pieces began to mold into...
Chills ran the length of my spine. Those nine pieces were slowly forming humanoid figures.
“What the fuck! What’s happening?” I shouted as the figures began to take shape. Flesh and hair sprouted as they became real.
Cronus looked into my eyes with a menacing expression. “You opened Pandora’s Box. The very thing I was tasked with protecting.”
The sins. The nine sins.
Oh fuck.
