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"Let’s take ain, throwing so herself from the booth before she followed me to my car

As we hurtled down the road toward the blackness ahead of us, Jade turned to me apprehensively

"Is this about my DNA?" she whispered

"What do you mean?" I asked hesitantly How hed "I’ but proble for me to confirabout"

She looked at me doubtfully

"My DNA is weird Because of my dad He’s a molecular physicist and after my sister died of a weird disease when she was a baby, he and ed to manipulate my molecular structure to ensure that I wasn’t born with the same hereditary illness But in the process, he soe

You know that day at your pool?"

I nodded, knohere this was going

"You were right My arms were scraped But in the few seconds that it took you to reach me from the pool house, they healed the to replicate the process for years And that is why I live with randmother He’s afraid that if the scientific world hears of it, I’ll be in danger There are crazy people out there ould want to use ot a hold of me and recreated whatever anomaly that caused my DNA mutations, they could s like that So, he hid rand in a sterile hospital room, restrained to the bed and I stiffened The Moirae wanted that outcome But why? That had the potential to create world wars

I shook er than ure it out

"Wow The sky is so dark," Jade co ahead of us "I’ve never seen it look like that before"

Because you’ve never seen pissed off gods before, I thought

"It does look like all hell is going to break loose," I agreed aloud "Could you do e favor? Could you call Gavin for me? He tried to call me earlier and I couldn’t pick up my phone"

She nodded and pulled out her phone I watched her dial and then wait She shook her head "Voicee and ask him to call me?"

As she did, I suddenly remembered that there were two voicemails on my phone from him

I flipped my phone open and held it toto believe this but Tara Wilson is here looking for you She wants to apologize or so So call me I love you"

My heart froze Tara ith Gavin? There was no way that she wanted to apologize

Soers, I pushed the button to listen to the second h the phone, but I knew in that instant who Tara really was Was nothing what it seeoddess of strife and discord My polar opposite As Haroddess of peace and content as I could remember She could appear in any form that the wished and her normal purpose in life was to undermine me in any way that she could And now she had Gavin I listened to her icy voice with dread

"Harmonia, I have Cadmus The poor dear thinks he’s in love withyour bloodstone and the Map of Souls"

The phone went dead and it was all I could do to not screa wheel and Jade stared at oing on?"

I took a deep breath and pulled off to the side of the road Turning to face her, I started to speak and then closed in?

"Just say it," she said nervously, her hands twisting in her lap She earing her aht I sucked up

"Jade, I have to tell you so to sound crazy, but I swear to you on everything holy that I a you the truth"

She nodded, her face very, very pale She could feel the tension in the car, I could tell

How could she not? I could practically touch it with my hands

"You are not what you think And I’m not what you think And that’s what this is all about"