Chapter Three Hundred and Eighty Two

Lilith's POV

Do you remember that night Theseus saved us, the day he took us to the god realm, to Celeste? Abyss asks me distantly, her voice sounds as if she’s far away and it makes me wonder if she’s slipping away from me.

I think back of the last, on that fateful day after Damian had marked my neck where he shouldn’t have.

And as before everything morphs and I’m back there.

Back in that bedroom but only momentarily as the vision takes on a world of its own.

I'm snapped right of the bedroom we were just in and into a garden as green as the eye can see.

My feet hit the ground, and I fall off balance to the side as I try to catch my balance before I faceplate the floor.

The man stands before me, his purple eyes glistening like the night sea as he watches me make a fool of myself.

"You're Theseus, aren't you?" I ask because he's strikingly similar to the man standing away from us when I met with Celeste, who didn't greet me even though he sought to look at me.

My... father.

"Yes. I