CHAPTER 24
AURORAWith trembling hands, I opened the front door and stepped into the eerily quiet pack house. Ruffles met me in the foyer with her eyes wide and her fur raised, as if she was scared or nervous, and then she meowed and looked up the stairs.
I pet her backside, pushing her fur back into place, and blew out a deep breath.
How would we keep our baby girl alive when we traveled to the underworld? We barely had a plan on how to defeat Hella, and we had absolutely no idea what the underworld looked like or how it worked. When we got there, everything could be different from what we thought it was.
Tears formed in my eyes, but I pushed them away and ran a hand over my belly bump. If Ares saw me crying, he’d ask what happened with Medusa, and I didn’t have the heart to tell him w
