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Aiden nodded, but the tense line of his jaw said he wasn’t happy "You want hed under ru and then said louder, "You did well today, you know that?"

A wide smile crossed my face "Yes, I do"

Aiden chuckled "Modesty?"

"Bah!" I started to turn, but stopped "Hey, can we, like, chill tonight? Watch a uys? Deacon and Luke?"

He nodded "If that’s what you want"

It hat I wanted Toet, well, they would get real And I wanted the night before to not be stressful

With the exception of trying to convince Seth to transfer power, and hopefully, I wouldn’t turn into the Terminator Apollyon afterward

That would ruin our movie plans

"Alex?"

I spun back to Aiden "Yeah?"

"Be careful," he said, swiping up his water bottle

"Always"

He smiled, but it didn’t reach his eyes I kneorried about what I was about to do, and I kneanted to be withto help

Walking toward the door, I raised an eyebrow at the rethelances, but none of the to say" I popped my hands onto see a pure and a half together And yes, we’re together in the biblical sense"

Their eyes widened

I s deal So, why don’t you three douche canoes go find soet a hobby Or better yet, there’s this huge war that’s about to start You guys could go figure how you could help instead of standing around like a bunch of bigoted ass-hats Okay? Buh-bye"

Spinning around, I left thee-old prejudices

Back in the day, if I were looking for Seth, I’d probably have found hile fe, but noasn’t so sure With the exception of his wild and crazy night in Vegas, I hadn’t seen hihed

All of us had changed so nize myself when I looked in the mirror, and not in the physical sense It had to be the sa the freaky connection between us, I headed down thedorhten as I rounded the last dorm and the cemetery came into view

A shudder snaked down my spine

Seth was in the ce upthe mausoleums and a statue of Thanatos, the red and purple hyacinths swayed softly in the breeze They caught my attention for a few moments as I walked to the center of the ceaze of the stone Thanatos, I scanned the to on a stone bench, Seth’s back was to the path He sat straight, his gaze focused on the olive trees It was so weird seeing theardens, the cereen thuing out in places where to

"Are you following me?" His voice carried on the wind

I made my way over to him and sat beside him "Maybe"

One side of his lips tipped up "Did you co out Perses?"

"No" A tiny grin fought to make a way onto my lips I lost "Maybe a little"

He chuckled "Figured"

"I did dalance, he arched a brow "You did I almost had him"

"So did Aiden," I re the key word"

"Whatever" He turned back to staring at the trees I wondered as so interesting about the clusters of leaves

"What are you doing out here?"

"It’s weird, right? To be hanging out here?" He bent forward, resting his arhs "I don’t know It’s quiet I like to come out here and think"