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"You haven’t left this roo, he bent and placed his lips against my forehead "I’ll be back shortly," he proet out of the bed until someone is with you"
"But I’hed softly as he pulled back "Alex, you may feel fine, but you lost a lot of blood and you just had surgery"
And I’d died, but I figured there was no point in adding that I didn’t want Aiden to worry any more than he did, especially when he looked so exhausted "All right"
Heback at "
I eased ontoanywhere"
"I know Neither am I"
Chapter 18
I SLEPT LONGER THAN I’D EXPECTED WHEN I AWOKE, the room was empty and my cell phone had been placed on the bedside table I hoped that Aiden was getting so position, I winced as the movement pulled at the skin around the stitches
Curious, I inspected the jagged scar again Half-bloods were notoriously fast healers and Covenant blades were designed to cut cleanly, but it had to have done soe Had Apollo somehow patched me up more? Because I doubted that the doctors could’ve reversed that kind of daic, I felt… okay
But as I glanced around the rooetting soely iue just like when I’d been under a coh It was like waking up and not being able to re, I reached over and snatched up the cell phone There was only onedown, I called hi "So, you’re alive?"
My heart flipped over heavily "Yeah, ouldn’t I be?"
"Well, I haven’t spoken to you in about two days" He paused "What have you been doing?"
"I’ve been sleeping, not doing ht days?"
I poked at my scar and winced "Yeah, that’s about all"
"Interesting…" There was ahad been pulled over the phone "You’ve been sleeping but Aiden had your phone?"
Crap "He’s been babysitting me I don’t knohy he answered the phone when you called" There was another ?"
"Pulling ona phone"
"Um, do you want me to call you back? Like when you’re not naked?"
Seth laughed "I’m not naked now Anyway, maybe we have some weird Apollyon malaise I’ve been exhausted for about two days, but feel fine now"
So he had felt so?"
"Hit me"
"You said that when I Awaken, I’ll knohat the past Apollyons knew, right?"
There was a pause "Yes, I said that"
Unease twisted my insides "Then how did you not know about the Order of Thanatos, and that they’d killed Solaris and the First? Wouldn’t you’ve seen what they’ve seen?"
"Why are you asking?" Seth asked
I took a deep breath "Because it doesn’t make sense, Seth You should’ve known And how did you not know that a half and pure made an Apollyon? None of the Apollyons in the past had ever figured that out?"
"Why are you asking about this--" A distinctive, very feain, it sounded far away and sounded an awful lot like the word, "behave"
I sat up, sucking in air sharply as my stomach screamed in protest "Who are you with, Seth?"
"Why? You jealous?"
"Seth"
"Hold on a second," he replied, and then there was a sound of a door shutting "Dammit, it’s cold out here"
"Better be careful Don’t want anything to freeze and fall off"
He laughed "Oh, that was bitchy I think you just ht be jealous"
Was I jealous that he was so obviously with a girl and he’d been naked? Shouldn’t I be? But I wasn’t jealous-- stabbed and dying while Seth was screwing around And how could I be uy I really had no roouy, not in several long months Not since I’d decided to see what could happen with Seth
Gods, I was so confused and I had no idea as going on and why it was happening now
"I’," Seth said after a stretch of silence
"I didn’t say you were Wait You’re with Boobs, aren’t you?"
"Do you really want to know, Alex?"
Not when he put it like that I chewed on my lip, unsure of what to say Suddenly I heard Caleb’s voice in my head There’s still hope Weird
"We never said ere in a relationship, and besides, whatever You’re there I’ to even matter"
I blinked "Really, it’s ‘whatever’?"
Seth sighed "I knoas by your side theto figure out a way to be with you And he’s answering your phone while you’re sleeping? Yeah, it’s ‘whatever’"