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"How are you feeling?" Mythat s my stare, she smoothed my hair back and offered me a small smile that didn’t meet her eyes "A co, but it won’t spread anywhere else for now"

I shook my head "Take it off"

"What?" Her brow knitted "Sweetheart, this is saving your life--"

"I don’t want it" I sat up, and my body screamed in protest as I ripped the compress from my arm It didn’t ain I didn’t want anyone to save ood shoulder, and firuided ht her "Too bad I’ to let you die on"I can’t do this, Marade, when the irl in my New York City private school had overheard and proceeded to tease me for the next four years

"Can’t do what?" She laid the coh it hurt like hell, the pain didn’t spread

"I had a baby," I whispered Did she even know she was a grandmother? Did she know about Calliope’s plot? Or did she think I’d run off with Ava for ninemy eyes "I know I’m so sorry, Kate"

That was it Siment No offer to find hiot I sed thickly, half an inch away from hysteria "His name’s Milo Henry--Henry liked that nah the haze around h ainst the open doorway, his blond hair tousled and his cheeks flushed, as if he’d run a marathon Or ht for so long

"He’s in another roo to him," he said Theo, the member of the council with the ability to heal wounds caused by Titans Or if not heal, at least make them less painful

Was it possible? The way Henry’s eyes had stared unseeingly, the lack of heartbeat, of any effort at all to keep his body going--it couldn’t be "Is Henry alive?"

The moment between my question and James’s answer lasted for an eternity All at once I needed to hear it, yet I didn’t want to know I could have clung to the delicious hope Jaave me for the rest of my endless life Henry could always be in the next roo for me

"Yes," he said, and I let out a soft sob Myon et lying still I struggled to sit up again, but for a second time, my mother held me down, more insistent than before

"You can see hilanced at Jaed a look I didn’t understand