Chapter 33: Hunting the Huntress

"The blood of your son will be the first thing I taste when this is over,"

Rage growled, his voice cutting through the tense silence of the abandoned hunting lodge they'd claimed as their temporary base.

Zereth's crimson eyes flickered in the firelight, his expression unreadable as he traced a finger along the yellowed map spread across the rough-hewn table.

"Get in line," he replied without looking up, his voice cool but edged with something darker. "Zagreus has been overdue for a father's correction for nearly two centuries."

The lodge creaked around them, winter wind howling through the gaps in the weathered wood. Three days. They'd been planning for three days, and Rage felt each passing second like a physical pain. Somewhere out there, Ingrid was in Zagreus's clutches, and the thought alone made his blood boil.