Cruel Seduction by Katee Robert EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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Even as a child, I knew I wouldn’t marry for love. Love is a fairy tale, a
fantasy built on lies as fine as gossamer wings. Normal people marry for
love. They settle down, do the white-picket-fence thing, have two-pointfive children and a dog named Spot. Maybe they’re happy in the end.
Maybe they’re not.
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That isn’t my path.
I’m marrying for power. For duty. For Olympus.
I tighten the tie of my silk robe and fight the urge to pace around the
bridal suite. Just fifteen minutes before, it was filled to the brim with
bridesmaids and hair and makeup people, but I sent them away to give
myself time to breathe. Two weeks is nowhere near long enough to pull
together a wedding worthy of my title, but desperate times call for desperate
measures.
My new husband is an enemy to the city that I love. A murderer, who
killed the last Hephaestus to gain his title. He and his family are a danger
unlike this city has ever known, and with the barrier around Olympus
failing, the stakes have never been higher.
Even if I have no doubts about taking this course of action, that doesn’t
mean it’s without cost.
I press my hand to the spot on my hip where a small tattoo is hidden,
the skin still tender from the fresh inking yesterday. An anemone flower.
I’m not normally so sentimental, but the physical pain alleviates the ache in
my chest a little. Or at least that’s what I tell myself as I turn to the window
overlooking the courtyard where I’ll walk down the aisle and sign my life
away to Olympus’s new Hephaestus.
The rows of seats are half-filled with all the important people in this
city. My family is nowhere in evidence; likely they’re having some kind of
hushed meeting right about now to ensure my groom doesn’t attempt to
leave me at the altar.
He didn’t choose this marriage, after all.
I smile. I don’t know what Theseus Vitalis thought he’d accomplish by
taking the Hephaestus title by force, but he’s a small fish in a big pond here,
even if he is now one of the Thirteen. He tried to argue against the
marriage, but with the rest of the Thirteen in agreement on this course of
action, he was essentially out-voted.
I chose this. I will continue to choose this. Growing up as the daughter
of one Zeus—and now the sister to another—there was never any question
that my marriage would be one of politics.
It also means I’m no stranger to violence and death. And if Minos’s
people decide they’re better off trying to take my title by making him a
widower…
I ignore the frisson of something almost like fear slithering down my
spine. Ruling Olympus means we’re all swimming in blood up to our necks,
even if some of my peers pretend otherwise. I’ve never had the luxury of a
soft fantasy, and I’m not about to start now.
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