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neglected you. I have been…busy since I gave you away. I forgot…” She jumped to her feet and turned to stare down at the water. “It was not right of me to abandon you. I should have taken my chances with Zeus.”
    “Well you didn’t. So forget bonding with me now.” I got up too and glanced at her. “You owe Circe two debts. Because she sent Blade in my path and here I am today, still alive. So you owe him . Fix his memory problem.”
    “No.” She turned back to me. “You don’t need to be with a man like that, a bloodsucker. I can take you back to Olympusnow that you are a woman. Rid you of those dreadful fangs, return your perfect body.” She tried to grab my hands. “Give you everything.”
    I darted out of reach. “I like my dreadful fangs. Love my blood-sucking boyfriend. And I’d never want to live in a place with creeps like the Storm God. No way in hell or Olympus.” I wanted to slap her, throw her off the bridge, something. But I knew better. A goddess from Olympus. I could feel her power like electricity in the air, shoving at me, but stopping short of actually hurting me. Restraint. Guess that was her version of motherly love.
    I knew the bits and pieces of power I had paled in comparison with what she’d have in her arsenal. Make her lose her temper and she’d probably “forget” again that I was her daughter and blast me until I was little more than a stain on the wooden planks beneath my feet. Her daughter. I backed away, disgusted and horrified at the thought.
    “You can’t change where you came from, Gloriana. But I can change what you are now. Make your body glorious, your teeth perfect, put a banquet before you that you could actually savor—every bite. If you want your beloved’s mind whole again, come with me. I can fix him with a snap of my fingers. Is that what you want? It would certainly please me.” She was close to me again, eyes sharp, watching me like a bird of prey hovering over its next meal. “But you’d never see him again.”
    “Never see him again?” I wanted him to remember, but to remember me , our love. What good would it do to have this woman restore his memories just to have me abandon him? He’d mourn me. I’d seen how he still loved me. It would be cruel, almost as cruel as leaving him stuck in the sixteenth century. And me? I’d have my heart ripped out.
    “I can’t bear to see you live as a monster. If you want him as he was, you’ll leave him and come with me now. Otherwise, there is very little hope that he can get his memories back.” She smiled slowly. “Of course you could leave him as he is and try to make him love you again. You are my daughter.I’m sure you are more than capable of seducing him if that is what you wish.”
    “This is about more than lust, woman.” I wouldn’t call her Mother. Never. This cold and heartless creature? “I want him to remember the last four hundred years. He’ll be in shock once he leaves the castle and sees all the inventions, the changes…” I pressed my hands to my stomach. “God, I can’t imagine how he’ll feel. It will drive him mad.”
    “Amazing. You really do love him. I blame it on your time as a human.” She looked skyward. “Another sin Achelous will answer for. Those of us who call Olympus home don’t waste our energies on such trivial emotions.” She sighed. “If you truly want this man, then he must prove he’s worthy.”
    “Of course he’s worthy. He’s strong, loving and brave. And he’s been true to me all these years.”
    “A paragon, it seems.” Her smile was cold and knowing. “I’ll believe it when I see it.”
    “What do you mean?” I didn’t like our proximity. She held me close enough with her power that I could smell her, a strange perfume of lavender and musk that made my nose twitch. Lavender. I had always loved it, used it as a body wash. I was tossing it as soon as I got home.
    “I mean, Gloriana, that I will test this man of yours. To see for