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can see that you did.”
    “Human males are quite fun, I must admit. Especially the one I had last night. His size was quite...surprising.”
    “I’m very happy for you,” Cat said, biting into the moist fruit and thinking of Lelantos, and the fun she would have before assassinating him. She frowned, not sure as to how she should go forward. Perhaps it would be best if she just killed him. No emotions involved. No guilt to harass her for the rest of her days.
    “What’s the matter, Kitty Cat?”
    She looked up at her sister and inwardly cringed. Usually she was very good at hiding her emotions. The gods were fickle, untrustworthy. To show emotion over a Titan would mean certain death. She may be the daughter of Zeus but even that wouldn’t protect her from his displeasure. Although, Hebe was trustworthy, Cat still needed to control her emotions. Emotions that had no place in this assignment.
    “I like him.”
    There she’d said it. The truth and the crux of her dilemma. Cat, a hunter and guardian of the divine, liked a bloody Titan. Could her life be any more difficult?
    “Who do you like? I know you’re down here for Father but I thought––”
    Cat watched as a myriad of emotions passed over her sister ’s face. Confusion, realization and then shock.
    “Not the Titan?”
    Cat stood and started to pace the room. She ran a hand through her hair and realized it was full of knots and spiking at improbable angles thanks to a restless sleep and the absence of her maids. “Yes the Titan. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. At first I thought him pathetic and weak. But he’s so changed, almost human really – hardly a threat to Father anymore. And I know he helped Chloe, but really, was it so bad that she wanted to live with her Scottish Highlander?”
    “Father thinks so ,” Hebe said.
    “I know.” Cat sighed. “Perhaps this will teach me to not play with my prey before I extinguish its life.”
    “I don’t know how you ended up working for Father as one of his hunters and I don’t want to know how you go about your business, but is there any way in which you may leave the Titan alone? Just tell Zeus you killed him or couldn’t find him?”
    “You would defy me daughter?”
    Hebe gasped and Cat swirled around to see Zeus standing behind them, his face as thunderous as the clouds outside. Cat pulled Hebe behind her and tried to calm her erratic heart. “You know Father, Hebe has always tried to see the best in people, and she was merely trying to limit the carnage my position in the court affords me.”
    Zeus didn’t take his thunderous gaze from her sister and alarm over what his actions may be sent her blood to pound. Father or not, she wouldn’t let him kill her favorite sibling. He would have to get through her first. “Should you fail me Caitlin, Hebe will join you in Tartarus and I’ll leave you both there to rot. Do you understand?” Zeus boomed making her startle as his gaze slid back to her.
    “Yes , Father.” Cat turned to Hebe and took her hands. “You best leave. Now, before I’m forced to show where my true loyalty lies. Do you understand?”
    H er sister heeded her warning and disappeared. Cat turned back to Zeus. “I have never failed you before and I will not fail you now.” She walked over to the settee and sat. “How did you find me?”
    Zeus looked about the room with a dismissive air , his hatred for all things human obvious. “I’ve been getting reports and I fear that perhaps you’re not the right hunter for this job.”
    “ Since when do I need to be watched? And who, in your opinion, is the right hunter? No doubt one of your minions who follow you like little sheep all bowing to do as you bid them.”
    “And so they should, daughter. Do not forget to whom you speak. With one flick of my wrist you are nothing but dust. Do not defy me.”
    Cat felt the rumbling of the building beneath her feet and the storm that had suddenly whipped up outside the hotel windows.