"Is this all it takes to break you?"

"A little trick, and you're already trembling?" Calliope's lips curled in mockery.

"And here I thought you were so strong, Sofia. Wasn't that why you dared to go against me?"

She pushed herself up from the table, her eyes raking Sofia from head to toe with unveiled disdain.

"Such pitiful strength, yet you thought you could challenge me? You truly don't know your place."

Sofia clenched her teeth, seething with rage, but words failed her.

She had been too ...