ATTICUS
I marched to my room. As soon as I pushed open the door to my room, I was met with the sharp sting of a slap across my face.
For a brief second, I froze, more out of shock than anything else. My jaw clenched, and I slowly turned my head back to face her.
Hera stood there, her eyes blazing with fury, her chest rising and falling in anger.
“This will be the last time,” she hissed, her voice laced with venom, “the last time you embarrass me like that in front of those animals.”
The sting of her slap faded, but the effect it had on me didn’t. If anything, the rush of heat it caused coursed through me, lighting up something primal inside.
She had fire, no doubt about it, and damn it, her defiance did things to me I hated admitting.
I wiped the corner of my mouth with my thum
