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You need otten already?"
Calliope gritted her teeth Of course she hadn’t forgotten, but as far as she was concerned, Ingrid was never going to forgive her Even if she did, Calliope doubted every girl she’d killed would, as per Kate’s ruling, which meant she would likely be stuck in the Underworld for eternity That was longer than Calliope was prepared to wait "Unless you want round, you will stay," she snapped
"You can do that?"
Calliope didn’t bother answering Instead she headed toward the fog and away frorid, who at least had the decency not to follow her The farther froot, the dimmer the meadow became, until Calliope was surrounded by rock--the real face of the Underworld now that there wasn’t a dead soul around to inf luence its appearance
Now that she was closer, she could see that the fog wasn’t really fog after all Instead it seeht reaching for her Calliope reached back, and the low, she understood why it had called to her At last, after decades of waiting, he ake
Calliope smiled, and a rush of power so ancient it didn’t have a na er she’d harbored for so long f inally found its purpose
"Hello, Father"
CHAPTER ONE
RETUR N TO EDEN
When I was a kid, each fall my teachers had the class write and present one of those horrible "What I Did Last Suned to make a classroom full of bored students pay attention
Each year I sat and listened as my classmates in my New York City preparatory school talked about how they’d spent the summers in the Hamptons or in Florida or in Europe with their rich parents, or au pairs, or as we grew older, boyfriends and girlfriends By the tilitzy stories over and over again: escapades in Paris with superht parties on the beaches in the Bahamas with rock stars--every student vied for attention with exploits that got wilder every year
But my story was always the same My mother worked as a f lorist, and becausefor that school, we never left New York City On her days off we spent our afternoons in Central Park soaking up the sun
After she got sick,her hair back as the cheh the television channels looking for so to watch