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I made a face and spat, but I didn’t have the chance to lay into hi e opened, and out skipped a curly haired blonde who looked a few years older thandown into the lush meadow, her skin was alabaster

Beside me, James pursed his lips, and Ava let out a soft snort of distaste I didn’t understand The girl knelt down in the garden beside the cottage door, and she started to pull weeds as she huly faeous ht to join her, I f inally understood

"Is that…?" I whispered James sed, and my breath hitched in my throat

Persephone

CHAPTER EIGHT

PERSEPHONE

She looked exactly like the io, except her hair was the color of wheat instead of strawberry-blond We weren’t close enough for me to see the freckles, but I was positive they were there, too Henry’s memory of her was perfect

Of course it was What else had I expected?

"So what?" I took a deep breath to slowpulse

The knot in my chest made it hard to breathe "Do we sit here and stare, or are we going to go say hi?" Ja eyes, and I wasn’t sure he was breathing, either

I poked hioing on?" I said to Ava She, too, was staring, but she had the sa at Dylan Or Xander Or Theo

"I aleous Adonis is," she said "We should have ue sound escaped fro "And have to endure another narcissistic blond running around? No, thank you"

Ava opened her mouth to retort, but I cut her off "You’re all narcissists Are we going or not?"

Wearing a wounded expression, James broke his stare, but neither he nor Ava e

With a huff, I stepped past the edge of the trees and walked through thearound the f lowers No use in risking Persephone’s wrath before saying a word

Persephone ht of me, because she stood and placed herself protectively in front of theHe looked like he’d stepped out of ato his shoulders and an abdomen that would’ve put Henry to sha there, andto say