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"What’s going on?" she said, and Ishe didn’t like

"Nothing for you to worry yourself about," said Cronus as he straightened, though his eyes didn’t leaveoffer," I said, sounding braver than I felt "Turns out he isn’t going to feed me to the fish like you want"

Her lips twisted into a snarl, but before she could say a word, Ava hurried past her carrying a large basket full of blankets and other things I couldn’t ht "I’m sorry," she said, her face flushed

"It’s about tiain "I’d be careful if I were you, Kate I have a new toy, and I’ve been itching to try it out on you"

"What new toy?" I said through gritted teeth

Calliope glided to the side of enerously donated his tiod His ti couldn’t be better"

My blood ran cold Nicholas, Ava’s husband, had been kidnapped on the winter solstice during battle Up until now, no one had said a word tobut Cronus could kill an immortal

"Is it?" said Calliope with a wicked s’s life on that?"

My heart dropped She was going to killher lip, Ava set her basket down at the foot of the bed "I’a the people I loved ainst

What if it wasn’t a ga I loved the ht she’d meant Henry and the rest of et everything she wanted from me--there was no reason for her to lie And the way Ava couldn’t so much as look at me

My throat swelled until I could barely breathe "Get out"