Kalona's Fall (House of Night Novellas #4)(33)

“Agreed,” Erebus said. “Some day in the future I will help him earn your forgiveness.”

“He will not let you help him.”

“Then he will not know that I do.”

Nyx turned her head and stared out the window of her balcony at the lush beauty that was the Otherworld and wiped at the single tear that had newly escaped her eye.

Far below, Kalona’s hand perfectly mirrored the Goddess’s, but his cheek was not wet with tears. Instead, catching a glimpse of himself in the still waters of the lazy creek, he saw that the moonlight color of his wings had changed to the black of the Darkness he had allowed entrance into Nyx’s Otherworld.

Filled with insatiable rage, Kalona roared his anger to the night’s sky and lost himself completely.

The end