CHAPTER 27
AURORAOnce the hound slaughtered the others, he stood before us with sanguine-colored fur and clear, non-murky eyes. After catching his breath, he turned around to face me and approached us slowly. Something about him seemed different than the other hounds that we’d fought before.
He was smaller and looked more like a rogue from earth than a hound from the dead.
Ares lunged at him, but I held him back. “Don’t.”
“Aurora,” Ares said to me through the mindlink. “Kill him, or I will.”
“No,” I said to Ares.
I wanted to see why this lone hound had betrayed the others and protected me. What had he felt when I thrust my hand against the ground and threw him into the air? Was it just a divine power or something else?
As the hound walked closer to us, I knelt down and held out my h
