Considering the way that Hera’s eyes had widened, I guessed that she recognised this to be exactly what it was. She knew just as well as I did that this was the moment where everything was going to begin. I hadn’t even had the chance to turn and take in the expressions on anyone else’s faces, or to even do so much as try to distinguish what they felt about what had happened and what was going to happen, before Alaric started to respond to Annabelle. It seemed like the only reason why I had even had the chance to work through what Hera was expressing, was because she was sitting directly across from me and she had been the first person whom I had seen when I had initially looked up.
“What in the world gives you the right to tell me how I’m supposed to treat your mutts?”
Any intention th
