母女的秘密授课

Fortunately, there were not a lot of things that she had, thus she could prepare them at the last minute, while the sky was still so dark out there.

“I bet you will grin from ear to ear the moment you meet him,” Hades commented again, as he perched on Zuri’s old study desk. He was teasing her, of course, since Zuri’s expression was anything but excited.

Without turning her body or even seeing her target, Zuri threw her onlace toward Hades and this shocked the god of the underworld as the weapon transpierced him and stuck against the wall behind him.

“Geez, you sure have a problem with your temper,” he hissed at her. “Luckily I couldn’t die, or else you will have a dead body in your lovely room.”

Zuri said nothing about that and continued what she was doing, as if nothing happened. Slowly, she mastered this ignoring pretense and thought of Hades’ noisiness as a breeze of wind, an annoying one at that.

“Do you want my advice?” Hades asked again, he sure couldn’t stop talking.

Zuri kept silent and zipped up her backpack, as she walked toward Hades, but her eyes were fixed on the onlace on the wall. She pulled it out and put it in the safety of her bag.

“Okay, I will take your silence as a ‘yes’.” Hades shrugged his shoulders and talked anyway about this advice of his. “You better not wake him up and kill those humans instead.”

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Zuri stopped what she was doing and stayed still. This reaction brought a smile to the corner of Hades’ lips. He knew how to get her attention and get on her nerves.

“He is still not whole. You caused so much trouble for him when he brought you back from the dead.” Hades jumped down from the desk and approached Zuri.

But, the girl turned around, backed away from him, she was ‘at the ready’ to attack him if he walked closer to her any more and this time, Hades was wise enough to not provoke the girl, since he needed her to listen to him.

“You don’t know what you will face, what kind of Chaos that you will see if you wake him up before his time.” Hades shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. His voice was calm, but Zuri had her suspicions that this was his way to talk about an important matter. “He can be someone else. Someone that you will completely not recognize at all.”

Zuri narrowed her eyes when she heard that explanation, that didn’t sound so reliable at all, but she needed him to talk more.

“What do you mean?” The backpack was forgotten and now Hades got all of her attention.

The sky out there had turned slightly brighter and the sun peeked from behind the horizon, as the day started.

“There is a devil in everything and for Chaos, his bad side could be suppressed because he has a strong conscience about his surroundings, has a better control of his demonic side, but because of you.” Hades seemed to like it as he emphasized the last few words and watched how Zuri’s expression changed. “Because of you, the balance in him was disrupted.”

Zuri could hear the sound of footsteps in the corridor and knew who was walking toward her room, but her mind was too busy trying to grasp Hades’ words.

“You don’t know how much he can control his devilish side if you wake him up before his time.” Hades chuckled lightly. “If you are not careful, you can release another monster in this realm.” He shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. “I don’t mind it if you take down the whole realm to hell. I will just have busy days ahead then.”

And the door flew open, as July entered the room. “It’s time,” she said and then frowned when she watched Zuri’s eyes fixed on something in front of her.

July tried to follow her line of sight, but she couldn’t see something interesting there that could leave her fascinated enough to go into a daze.

“Zuri?” She nudged her shoulder and the girl flinched.

“Yes?” She took a step back to avoid July.

“I said it’s time,” July repeated her words.

“Okay, let’s go,” she murmured and then took the backpack and slung it on her back. She followed July out of the room, but not before glancing briefly at the same place.

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Zuri and July would take a private plan to go to the frozen lake. And there were another five men with them. Two of whom Zuri knew as Knox and Gael’s right hand men, Nathen and Sebastian.

“You have grown up, Blue...” Nathen was as easy going as Gael, thus when he saw the little white haired girl that had turned into a teenager. He thought about Zuri as the same eight years old and reached out a hand to tousle her hair.

“Don’t do that,” Zuri growled at him and gave him a dagger look that was enough to make his hand stop mid- air, as he watched in surprise by the hostility that the girl showed to him.

He knew that she was a little bit salty even when she was a child, but now she looked even more dangerous.

Zuri walked past him and took a seat next to July’s seat, but the woman was still out there, talking about a few things with the other three men. She had told their names to Zuri, but she forgot the moment they were out of her sight.

“What happened to her?” Nathen asked July when she approached him. His eyes were on Zuri, so she could understand what he meant.

“Don’t annoy her,” July said simply.

“I did not,” Nathen grumbled, he felt offended. “I am being very nice and friendly.”

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