Page 4 of Poseidon's Trident
Raven swats at me with her free hand but I dodge right and she misses. We are both laughing but Kira is glancing between us like we’re lunatics.
“When we went to the underworld a couple months ago, Hades thought it would be fun to test us before we got there. We ran into trouble trying to get past Spot and Raven grabbed a human leg bone to throw like a toy.”
“I thought it was a stick,” Raven shouts.
“In the underworld?” Kira asks incredulously.
“I’ll have you know, there are tons of trees in the underworld. It wasn’t a horrible assumption.” She tugged Kira to the eighth floor.
Dax stands on the landing, his arms crossed over his barrel of a chest, and Kira squeaks in surprise. His eyebrows raise at Raven’s arm around Kira’s.
“What are you doing, Raven?” he asks.
“We’re having a girls’ night. No boys or bratty younger brothers allowed.” Raven flips her hair over her shoulder.
“I’m literally a couple months younger than you,” he says.
“Right, you’re still younger,” Raven sings as she pushes past Dax.
“Kira doesn’t look too excited about a girls’ night with the two of you. What’s really going on?” Dax glances at me but turns away quickly.
“There’s nothing going on. We wanted a bit of normal before we inevitably have to go out and save the world again.” I planted my fists on my hips.
“Since when have you two ever had a girls’ night? That isn’t normal for either of you.” Dax sidesteps in front of Raven.
“That’s not a girls’ night; that’s just friends hanging out when it’s just me and Raven, silly. You can’t have a girls’ night without at least three girls.”
His eyes gleam at my words and I nearly smack myself in the forehead at what I just said, but luckily for him, he keeps his laughter and dirty comments to himself.
“Whatever you say, Beth.” He moves out of Raven’s path finally. “You sure you’re okay, Kira?”
“I’m fine,” she says and rolls her shoulders back.
I glance at Raven with a raised brow. Maybe this will be easier than either of us thought. He’s already showing a mild interest in her even if it is just to save her from the troublemakers. I can work with that. I smirk at Raven. We may just be onto something.
“Are you sure? I don’t know what these two have up their sleeves but it usually isn’t good and more often than not ends badly.” Dax glances between me and Raven.
“Which time that I saved your ass ended badly, Dax?” I ask, getting angry now.
“What about the Chimera? Or when Draven hit you with that spell?” He glares at me.
“You mean the time we saved the academy from a fire-breathing lion goat thing? Yeah, that ended terribly,” Raven scoffs.
“C’mon,” Kira cuts into the argument. “Let’s have a girls’ night. Woo.”
She’s obviously just trying to diffuse the tension Dax created by being an ass but we take that as a green light and head up the stairs without a backward glance. I’m not taking any chances that she’ll change her mind.
When we get to the tenth floor, Thad is standing in the hall with a smirk. He waves his hand and all the water in Kira’s hair and on her clothes flies into his open palm.
“Neat trick,” I say, glancing at Kira who is now completely dry.
“Thanks. It comes with the whole sea god as a sperm donor thing.” He shrugs and stomps back into his room.
“I wonder what else comes with being the son of the sea god,” I mumble but continue up to my floor.
We get to my room and Kira’s eyes widen. I forgot it’s probably the first time she’s been up here. I shrug. The only things that are mine are the clothes in the closet and my go bag I have on the floor. Everything else was here when I got here.
“It still boggles my mind that you have the entire top floor to yourself.” Kira shakes her head.
