FIVE

She paced back and forth inside her chamber which undeniably looked more like a prison. Even as several hours had passed by, it still wasn't enough to process what she had heard.

A devil. An actual devil. And she is in the underworld. How could she process all that? And as if it wasn't bad enough, Hades told her she was there to serve him. She's a payment for what her parents had prayed for. She couldn't fathom how unfair it was for her when she wasn't the one who asked to be born in the first place.

A prayer that was not supposed to happen. She was not supposed to be born. She should not have been born. Yet her parents had asked the devil to grant them a child and the payment would be for her to be the devil's slave.

She sank to the floor. She doesn't have any idea how she's going to accept all of that. She doesn't know if she will ever accept it all.

A knock in her door pulled her back from her reverie. She stood and scuttled to the furthest corner of her room. The door opened