Ivy:
Just as Kali had her first feeding of the night and was put back to bed, Damon, the twins, and I all piled into our bed just as a loud rapping on the palace doors rattled the floors.
I bolted upright as one word escaped my lips. “Cronus”. I whispered, unaware how I could feel his bitter deception from here. But I was confident I could. It rolled off of him in sick tendrils that latched onto everything in his path, sucking the life from it the way he wanted to suck the life from my daughter.
We rushed downstairs, stopping short of the doorway where the four of us collected ourselves.
“How can we help you?” Damon asked with an expression that was less than inviting.
The strange man at the door, with a sinister smirk, confirmed what I knew already. This was Cronus, and Kali had b
