I Accidentally Seduced Hades novel · Chapter 22 of 32
Chapter 22: The Court
Somebody laughed.
A man near the bar, in a silver mask, one short bark.
Then every green lamp on every oak table went out at once.
The candles didn't flicker. They just stopped, flames standing straight up.
The quartet's last note hung in the air and didn't fade.
The clock over the doors said eight-fourteen, and the long hand didn't move.
And the pull stopped.
I felt it let go of me, all at once.
I could breathe. I could stand.
"Court," Hades said quietly behind me. "Nothing moves forward while they sit."
They were at the center table.
I hadn't seen them come.
Three women in gray, at the long oak table under the chandelier, where a donor's wife had been sitting a second before.
One young. One middle-aged. One so old her skin was the paper in the Book.
The young one had a spindle in her lap.
The middle one held a long gold thread across her fingers.
The old one had a pair of black shears on the table in front of her, closed.
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