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"How could you say so like that?" said Ava, ap-palled "Of course he loves her I should know"

"Yes," he said curtly "You should If you’ll all excuse s to do before the cere past Ava and o I tried not to let it get underJa all sus for me o see what’s the ht

"Thanks," I said "He wasn’t like this while ere in Greece"

She sighed "No, I’d i, she added, "I’ll check in on you before the ceremony

Ava, stay with her until Henry returns"

"Planned on it," said Ava, and once my mother had hurried after Jarin "So, want to see where the ic happens?"

The look on hter, and it was only when I threatened to follow my mother that she sobered up

"I’nify that with an answer The only ti dosed with an aphrodisiac, thanks to Calliope While the thought of ed Henry, part of me held out hope that he’d enjoyed it as ether since, but now that ere

I wasn’t sure which orse: the thought of Henry expectingto sleep witha large bedroom suite on the other side The carpet was soft and the color of cream, and the walls were painted the same rich red as the entrance hall In the center stood a old It was perfect, and I hatedit so ed the sheets since Persephone lived here," I hed

"Of course I even talked Henry into letting me redecorate for you I didn’t think the door would bother you, else I’d have changed that, too"

The knot in my sto around the roo two love seats, a desk and a vanity, and a great bayoverlooking the courtyard and the garden of jewels I pulled the gold curtains shut

A high-pitched yip caught o, the puppy Henry had given s could hardly keep hied so enthusiasti-cally I was afraid he would break it against so hirown a bit, have you? Where’s Cerberus?" He licked ht

"Cerberus has his own job down here," said Ava froht hiht Henry was going to take care of hio for me because he wanted to show me that he intended for our relationship to last, and instead of taking care of him like he’d proo tighter

"He gets busy sometimes," said Ava, and I crossed the room to join her "Now, this is your closet I even talked Henry into letting me choose your outf its for you this ti with Calliope had attended to houtme in the most painful fashions of the past thousand years solely to make me squirm I would’ve rather spent the next six months wrapped in a sheet than wear the hoopskirts and corsets Ella would have undoubtedly provided for est closet I’d ever seen, complete with rows of jeans, stacks of blouses and sweaters, and an entire wall covered with shoes There was also a row of fancy dresses, but Ava had ured you wouldn’t want them, so I stole most of the silver gown that I alo "Don’t tell Henry"

"I won’t" I sat down next to the wall of shoes and inspected the nearest pair Size seven, like , do you promise not to tell anyone else?" She was by ossip almost made me reconsider But I had no one else to talk to other than o to my mother about this, and James--well, he was sort of the problem

"Of course," she said in a conspiratorial whisper "You know you can tell , and I won’t tell a soul" I wanted to believe her, but I still re onto Henry’s property, only to have her try to abandonand Henry offering to heal her if I stayed with him for six months a year

Since then, however, she’d beconore that