BLACK LIES
book one in the 'chaos series'
in which a goddess falls apart because of love and a power she had no place in controlling overcoming her, threatening the lives of those around her, including the god she finds herself tied to by love.
LOKI...
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25| COLD HEARTED, BROKEN AND AS DANGEROUSLY EXPLOSIVE
"Let me through you incompetent swine! I'm not here to kill him, idiot, if I wanted to kill right now you'd be the first in line. Get out of my way!" Lusine shouts, throwing the panicking medic out of the way. He hits the wall hard, sliding down the stone to a crumpled mess on the floor.
"Lusine! What are you doing here?" Lusine spins around at the sound of her mother's voice. Selene was one of the last people she wanted to see right now, but there she was stood in her pretty pink dress and her glistening eyes. "You shouldn't be here."
"I want to speak with my brother," She replies simply. "And you're going to try and stop me, aren't you?"
"You almost killed him, Lusine!" She shouts, her voice breaking and her eyes beginning to bubble with tears.
Lusine flashes with hurt, not anger. "He tried to kill me too, but you don't care about that do you? I bet he didn't tell you about the way he held my neck in his hands and squeezed, watching as I struggled for air and as I began to die. He is just as cold hearted, broken and as dangerously explosive as I am!"
"Stop," Selene utters quietly, but she does not relent.
"You just find it easier to blame me because I'm the problematic princess of the Wolf Moon. I'm easier to lock up, I'm easier to let die, even it be by the hands of my own brother." Lusine lets out a small bark of laughter. "Admit it, you're just as cold hearted as I. Perhaps that's where I get it from."
"I'm nothing like you."
"Don't treat me like the fool I once was." Turning away from her was much simpler than facing her and facing the potential of her anger rising.
But the sound of a dagger flying through the cold air had Lusine spinning around just in time to catch it between her fingertips. The blade falls from her trembling hand, spinning as it falls. It clatters to the floor, the sound echoing throughout the hall like ripples in a lake of beautiful blue ecstasy.
The shock rendered Lusine speechless; her own mother had just tried to kill her.
Her chest felt tight and her heart stopped in its tracks as she shook her head at her. "I told you that you were just like me, I told you. I told you and you didn't listen because you're just like me and I'm just like you."
Lusine takes a sharp breath in as she takes in her mother's features one last time. "I'm going in there to speak with Lycus; this will be the last time I see you and for that I am grateful. I deserved better than you," Lusine closes her eyes for a moment. Opening them again with a smile. "And you deserved better than me."
"This is goodbye?" Selene asks. Flooding into her like a tidal wave came the realisation of what she had tried to do, what she had planned for weeks and what she, now that it had been attempted, actually felt.
"You knew this was goodbye the moment you took that dagger from your pocket and threw it, aiming for my ragged spine. Therefore, today I say goodbye to you and never again to I wish to see your face. Not in my dreams, not in reality. Grant me the burden of your presence after this moment and I will not feel hesitation in ripping your heart from your chest like you did to me all those years ago, Selene."
"Lusine, that's not what happened," She tries, but the hurt in Lusine was too much.
"Yes it is! You left me to burn in the fire that consumed our home. You took Lycus and left me to die, how sick and twisted can you get to try and tell me that it's not what happened. I was eight years old and you left me to die."
"Go and speak to your brother," She says shakily, turning away from Lusine with the wind knocked from her. Every inch of her shook as she walked away from her daughter, feeling those icy eyes locked on the back of her skull and knowing how badly Lusine wanted to hurt her.
But it was Lusine who had restrained herself, not her.
