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A volcano erupted inside nize the sound Windows cracked Shards of glass fell, and stopped before they hit the floor

It wasn’t enough--the destruction wasn’t enough It could never be enough Every cell inside in to co shuddered as I took a step forward My feet lifted off the floor Below e, uneven sections that rose into the air Another shockwave of akasha rolled out fro

In a flash, I felt the rage and sha so broken by Ares

I hadn’t mourned all those who’d died at the hands of Ares until thateain until that very second

I felt the daain

I tasted the bite of fear and the tang of fury when I remembered the condition of Aiden’s hands when I first saw hiain when I reled face

I felt the horror of pulling the trigger and killing Lucian

I felt it all

I felt alive, as if I was finally awake, and it was too h me, and the walls trembled

The door opened behind h my nose Seth stood there My feet touched the floor

"You need to try to cal this whole building down"

Calet real up in here

I fleard hi his head back Seth stu his face The burst of pain flaring across runted

Jerkingup, I slammed my knee into Seth’s storabbed fistfuls of his shirt and shoved hiainst the ith one hand

"Okay" He spat out a mouthful of blood "I’ll admit I deserved that"

The stupid cord in me didn’t understand the violence, but it liked that I was touching him For that reason alone, I dropped do and spun I took his legs out fro the destroyed floor on his side

I vaulted to my feet and then dropped into a crouch

Seth was back up in record tiolden brows slaression I’el"

"Don’t" I dipped under his ar up behind hiht my knee up "Me That!"

Seth twisted away before I could say hello to his spine He facedeyes "Coel"

The sound that ca for the hills

He lifted his hand and gave the universal "con "Work it out of your systeer was so much directed at hi, but I launchedhim backward We crashed into as left of the desk and toppled over it In a rather impressive feat, Seth shifted and hit the floor underthe brunt of the fall I was on top of hiht them down on his chest, over and over I hit hih the sudden wetness in my eyes What the hell? The dampness rose and spilled over My hands ached, but I couldn’t stop Tears streamed down my face and the whole time…the whole time Seth let me hit him He didn’t raise a hand He didn’t stop me

My body shook and my arms ached The sobs came from deep within me, from that dark and rotted-out place that had cropped up when Ares shattered ainst Seth’s chest once more, weaker this ti toto drown the whole world with theel, stop"

I wished I could, because crying on top of Seth wasn’tmy wounds in private It was a whole lot of pathetic and aard, but it was like the seal that keptback now

Sethonminutes, ere stretched out the floor like two idiots, his are to hi room It took more time than usual for the tears to finally ease off, and for h to speak

"Why you?" I asked,