Secrets in the Smoke

Hades’s POV

I stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling glass, feeling Manhattan burning below me like a living organism.

The lights, sirens, power, and noise. All of it mine to command, and none of it loud enough to drown the echo of my brother’s name in my skull.

I helped myself with a stick of cigarette between my fingers and a glass of scotch in my other hand.

I dragged in smoke, slow and deep, t