Chapter 13
Maddock was not wrong about the captive. The man who called himself Zagreus was indeed biding his time, waiting for an opportunity to turn the tables on his captors. Maddock was also correct in believing that the man was very dangerous; in fact, he was far more dangerous than Maddock could have possibly imagined, for he was a servant of the only true god—Death.
As he sat, bound and gagged, his back against a bulkhead, Zagreus did not question the choices that had placed him here, in captivity to his enemy, in the salon of his own yacht. He did not wonder about the identity of the mysterious force that had interceded on Maddock’s behalf, killing his men as if by magic. None of those things mattered. That he still lived was more than enough evidence that the Lord of the Underwor
