CHAPTER 18 MARSThe next morning, I awoke with an enhanced motivation to find my mate, to find Aurora. Last night had been the longest one of my entire life. I had nightmare after nightmare of Hella finding Aurora and taking her away from me again. She’d screamed so loudly in my dreams, the shrill sound making me wake up multiple times in a cold sweat. I needed to find her. It wasn’t just a want anymore. She was in the underworld, so close to where I was, and I wouldn’t let her travel around here alone anymore. Ares might’ve been strong, but he didn’t know the horrors that lay upon this world down below. There were monsters far more dangerous than Hella and Nyx. Giants and centaurs and birds who wanted revenge lurked in every dark corner of this realm, just waiting to attack and sink th