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How could he have been okay with that? Did the means really justify the end for him? I’d experienced way too ed It seeer was associated withelse

Another randoht formed The prophesy of Grandma Piperi, oracle extraordinaire, came back like a cold sore You will kill the ones you love

Part of me did love Seth--pre-jackass, of course He was a part of me We were yin and yin, and Seth had been there for er so blinded by how he used to be that I couldn’t see what needed to be done If I couldn’t get the power of the God Killer to transfer to

But that prophecy didn’t mean just my loved ones would die by my hand Kain, a half-blood Guard who’d helped Aiden train me, had been turned by my mom in an attempt to reach me and died by Seth’s hand Caleb had been murdered by a daiet food and drinks, even knowing that there could be daimons on campus And my mom had been turned into a daimon--her true death--because of h I couldn’t claireat deal toward the end, and her death was also linked to me

And more people I loved would die

I crossedthe way my bones cracked from the movement "The University isn’t safe with me here"

Aiden whirled towardinto thin slits, but before he could speak, Marcus stepped in "There is no other place safer, Alexandria At least here, we have Sentinels and--"

"Sentinels and Guards are nothing if Ares finds a way in And let’s say he doesn’t--we still have Seth to worry about"

"We can’t leave here" Luke leaned forward, dropping his arms onto his knees "Not until we’ve rallied the troops and you’ve fully recovered--"

"I’ lie detector

Luke raised a brow

"Whatever," I said "I need to leave"

"You Are Not Leaving"

Everyone in the roo in the air, and challenge seeped out every pore "I have to," I said

"No" Stalking forward, his powerful muscles rippled under the black shirt he wore The black shirt of a Sentinel, and gods, he was a Sentinel through and through at that moment "We already had this discussion All of us know the risks, Alex"

Challenge accepted "But that was before Ares went all god badass on us"

His eyes turned a furious shade of silver as he stared down at ed!"

"The technicalities have,else"

I stared at hiht it was Hephaestus or Hermes, but it’s Ares In case you don’t remember, he’s the ritted out

"Children," Marcus adlares

Marcus ignored it "Aiden is right, Alex"

Of course he took Aiden’s side

"We all knoe’re getting into" He gestured at his battered face "Trust ether"

"What about them?" I totally remembered when everyone had stood up and announced that they had estured at the back of the room "What about every person at the University--the students, and all the people who ca to take that risk?"

A Sentinel next to the young one who’d been with Dominic they day we’d arrived here stepped forward and said, "If I may speak?"

Aiden sent him a look that a wiser person would’ve run fro Then again, none of them were

"What is your name?" Diana asked

"Valerian," he answered, and I pegged him to be in his late twenties A half-blood, of course

"Like the root?" Deacon asked

Luke rolled his eyes

The man nodded "Most people call me Val"

"What do you have to say, Val?" Diana spoke again

"Everyone here has been affected by what is happening I can’t name one person who hasn’t lost a friend or a loved one Not to mention we lost our Dean and our friends when Ares attacked I can’t speak for everyone, but you will find that the vastto do just about anything to see an end to this"