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"But you were only able to see his face in one of theht behi like that Ever"

Tell that to Laylen "How can you be so sure?"

He stared at me, dumbfounded "Because he’sover my options here Should I tell hi away too much information, and I still wasn’t sure if I trusted Alex Even after we’d kissed "You were there, you know? In the vision There was a little boy with the saht or not, it was just a guess It reen eyes and how he’d called Stephan his father

"No There’s no way," he said fir if I was"

I raised my eyebrows at him "Perhaps your mind has been tampered with too"

"No There’s no way," he repeated, but the firers restlessly through his hair "Look Ge Maybe it was soo into the lake I mean Dyvinius said that you didn’t see the vision correctly the first time Who’s to say you didn’t see correctly the second time either"

I bit back my irritation the best I could "I saw it correctly both times The only problem with the first one was that I couldn’t see the peoples’ faces" He still looked unconvinced, and it"Besides, the vision isn’t the only ti lost "What do youout now I’d already opened Pandora’s Box "Before I learned anything about who I was, I was having these nighth the forest by the Death Walkers"

"Yeah, I re that" He sat down on the couch and rested his arms on his knees "But what does that have to do with my father?"

"Because at the end of every dream, the Death Walkers capture hed and sank down into the couch beside hihtmares had the same scar as your father" His eyes widened as I continued, "And back at Laylen’s, when I was lying on the floor freezing to death, so similar to what happened to me back at the fieldtrip I went into this vision, and there was a otten rid of soaped atme is that you went into a vision without a crystal ball not once, but twice Why didn’t you tell me this before?"

"I did At least, I did with the first one"

"Yeah, but I just assu But if you’re seeing so that has Demetrius in it…" He let out a loud breath "There’s no way that could be a memory You’ve never seen him before" Silence choked the air as he considered all of this "How is it even possible for you to do that?" he muttered to himself "How can you see a vision without a crystal ball? It’s just not possible"

"When I asked you about it before, you said you weren’t sure if it was possible or not for someone to see a vision without a crystal ball," I reminded him "You even said that you may have heard of someone who could"

He stared down at the floor, seriously conte what I’d said

"Alex," I said a little too loudly and he juht now What’s i it up with Demetrius had a scar on his cheek"

He sed hard, looking…well, really, really vulnerable I had to admit, I didn’t like how it looked on hi whether he was going to fall apart He couldn’t fall apart Not if his father was secretly working with Deotten rid of ht now

"Look, I know this has to be hard to hear," I said

"Has to be hard to hear?" He laughed an unsettlingly kind of laugh "What you’re telling me is that not only did my father send Jocelyn to The Underworld, but that he’s working with Demetrius"

"I understand that it’s hard to hear, but do you think it wasn’t hard for et sent to The Underworld?"

"Yeah, but you don’t even know her," hefrom the couch and threw my hands on my hips "That’s not fair The only reason I don’t know her is because of you"

"You can’t be right aboutme "There’s just no way"

"If that were true, then hoould I know all of this? What? Do you think I just ed "How do I know? Maybe you did?"

I was fulared at ry

I’one on--probably awhile--but I never got to find out because the air suddenly froze over with a deathly chill, and we both stopped talking

Great Not again

Chapter 33

"How did they find us here?!" I was standing in the dining roo frantically around in a secret cabinet that had been hidden behind aAlex was until he’d slid the enor out of the way like it wasfor in there"

I was still pissed off about his refusal to accept that his father was responsible fortrapped down in The Underworld, buthere was overriding er After we’d felt the air freeze over, Alex had run over to the , and yep, sure enough, a flock of theht for the cabin We wouldn’t have been able to see theht like a swar for" Alex held up the Sword of Immortality "And this" He held up another sword, a ed blade, which he shoved the handle of it at me "Here, take it"