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Kat cringed as Sin spoke a truth that only the bravest of souls would even dare whisper And never within Arteainst hiift for pissing off people" As was evidenced by Artee "Why don&039;t you tell her that dress makes her look fat while you&039;re at it?"

He answered by pressing the blade closer to Kat&039;s throat "I&039;, Artemis"

Artemis&039;s face turned to stone "And neither aer left her throat She was pulled from Sin&039;s arms by an unseen force an instant before the knife was ripped froed into his chest, three times On the third time, it was left buried to the hilt where it slowly rotated in his chest

Sin cursed foully before he jerked it out

Kat held her hand up toward Arte to defuse the situation "Matisera"

"Stay out of this, Katra Go home"

By the tone of Artemis&039;s voice, Kat knew she should obey But she couldn&039;t stand by and let Sin die if what he&039;d said about the gallu was true They couldn&039;t be left without soht them

Artemis stalked toward him "It&039;s time I finish e started"

Sin pushed himself up from the floor and ran at Artemis, but he didn&039;t corowled, then slung his ar

Kat took a step toward her mother to protect her But before Kat could take two, Arte out "Deie, fierce man appeared by Artemis&039;s side Dressed all in black, Deimos had short jet-black hair that was streaked hite stripes-a much different hairstyle than he&039;d had the last ti in appearance, especially with the tattoo that started out as a light eyeliner around his electric blue eyes and then zigzagged from his tear ducts down his cheeks to his neck Beautiful and deadly, he stood before thes braced wide apart, his head tilted low like a predator and his arun-ready to fight

"Suck his powers out and kill hiaped at the order Once issued, it couldn&039;t be taken back Deierous of the Dolophoni A son of the dreaded Furies, he was the one the gods called out when they needed a relentless Terminator and he wouldn&039;t stop until Sin was dead

Deimos ran at Sin and slammed him to the floor

"What have you done, Matisera?"

"What I should have done in the beginning" Artemis tried to flash Kat out of the roorandmother, she didn&039;t have that power anymore

Kat&039;s mother snarled at her, "Leave us, Katra Now"

But she couldn&039;t She was the reason Sin was in this ht, in the end she kneould win it

And it wouldn&039;t be Sin

Sin was fighting with one hand tied behind his back and three nasty chest wounds while Deimos could draw from the power of the entire Greek pantheon to kill him-it was one of many benefits bestowed on the Furies and their children And though Sin ht deserve to die, he didn&039;t deserve death like this

Not after what they&039;d done to him and not if what he&039;d said was true They would need hiht the deistered the confusion on Arteainst the wall, fighting, while Deirabbed Sin from the side and flashed them from his apartment to her own place in Kalosis

They landed in a pile of twisted li rooo far He was bleeding profusely, but what concerned her was the gaping wound his dagger had left If he were mortal, that would have been fatal to hiht now that he ishing it was

She scooted herself toward hilared at her "Where are we? What did you do?"

"I kept you fro"

He pushed her hand away from his wound "Oh, believe s "Yeah, you were doing a real bang-up job of it I particularly liked the way you were bruising his fists with your face A few minutes more and I&039;m sure your heart would have been on the attack after it was ripped frorimaced at her "What do you know?"

"More than I want to most days"

Sin frowned at the catch in her voice as she spoke It was apparent that she eary, no doubt of Arteh to wear down even the stoutest of immortals

And as ht about hi his ass kicked He should have known better than to go up against Artemis without his full powers It&039;d been stupid, and he was lucky the Dolophonos hadn&039;t torn his heart out

But he&039;d wanted his revenge, and nothing else, especially so as trivial as common sense, had mattered

Katra ed wounds in his chest froer Artemis had repeatedly planted there He started to shove Kat away, but before he could, shein her hand so that she could clean the wounds Her kindness enetichim for any reason Everyone he&039;d ever known had turned their backs on him and left him to suffer

People weren&039;t kind and he knew it Not unless the act of kindness could benefit theave hi you?"

He arched a brow at her as he looked pointedly at her hand that iping away his blood

She cleared her throat before she answered "I don&039;t like to see people get screwed over, okay?"

"And why don&039;t I believe that? Oh wait, I know Because you&039;re the daughter of the biggest bitch who has ever lived One whoover anyone she co that?" Kat said from between clenched teeth

Like that would ever stop him "She is a bitch"

"Not that, the other part And actually you better stop saying both or I&039; to tend this wound with a salt poultice"

"Why? Aren&039;t you proud of Moreen eyes"I loveinside me and I would kill or die to protect her That&039;s why you need to stop talking like that about her because I will kill you"

Sin paused as a frightening thought went through hihter

He could re him toward her bed as his head was fuzzy from drink She&039;d torn his shirt from him and then thrown hiin

An awful feeling went through hihter, aren&039;t you?"

Kat screwed her face up as if that was the ine "Don&039;t flatter yourself Your genes could never have created ht She was beautiful and tall-taller than Artemis, which could easily have come from him Her skin was a darker hue His stomach shrank in trepidation "Then who&039;s your father if it&039;s not me?"

"That&039;s hardly any of your business"

"It is me, isn&039;t it?"

She rolled her eyes at hiers "Men and their egos Trust me My mother wouldn&039;t have you in her bed even if you were dipped in chocolate-coated caramel"

Oh, now that really offended hiood in bed My skills are unsurpassed I wasn&039;t just a god of the od of fertility You knohat that means, don&039;t you?"

"You have a lot of penis envy over the other fertility gods?"

He shoved her hands off hiet up only to wince and fall back

"Don&039;t worry I won&039;t tell the other gods about your small penis problehter"

"And I told you to stop saying that"

"Why?"

"Because no one&039;s supposed to know about er in her tone "What are they? Blind? You look just like her"

"No, I don&039;t I look mostly like uessed it is beyond me"

There was no surprise there, either "You have the same voice"

Kat pulled back and frowned "Do I?"

"Yes The accents are different, but the tone of it isn&039;t You sound just like her"

Kat pushed herself to her feet and hly perceptive Soeneral weren&039;t normally that perceptive, and it made her wonder if anyone else had ever picked up on the similarities in her and Arteh to keep it to the his mended chest before he repaired his shirt with his powers Then he tried to leave her house by flashing out only to learn that he couldn&039;t "What the?"

Kat shrugged at his angry glare "You have to stay here"

"Bullshit," he growled

"No, no shit here," she said, indicating her clean floors with her hand Then she cupped her broken arm to her chest "You leave this place and you&039;re a dead man Trust me The moment you spoke that which will not be spoken and my mother called out the Terned"

Every part of hie You understand?"

She laughed at his righteous indignation "Oh yeah, right This from the man who knocked me out and then bound me up like a mummy? What was that action?"

"That was different"