CHAPTER 31
AURORAWas Medusa my real mother?
No, she can’t be.
Since birth, Mom had raised me alongside Jeremy as if we were siblings. She never mentioned once that I had been adopted or that I was never really her child. But if this was true, all the name-calling, all the rude remarks, everything about the way she’d treated me would make sense.
In some unfortunate way.
Yet in every myth and legend that I had learned in school, Medusa couldn’t get pregnant. After the decline of the gods, she had been cursed for eternity to never be able to conceive a child and especially not to survive the birth of one. If this was real, was that myth false?
“You’re not lying,” I whispered to her, brows furrowed. “Are you?”
“No,” she said, taking my face in her hands. “You’re my daughter. Venus, godd
