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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

A SH & BLOOD

I openedcah the fog, echoing all around me "There’s no one here to help you anyway"

I reached out for Ava, but she was gone "What did you do with her?" I said, stuive Calliope the satisfaction of seeing h," she said as she appeared out of the fog in front of me "I told you Cronus would freeworks out in the end?"

Malevolent heat spread throughCalliope after the brothers had captured her

"What do you want?" I growled, clawing atto me? There had to be a way to stop it

"I already told you what I want," she said "I’ to take what you love most from you, and you’ll be helpless to stop ers touched me, my skin burned

I slapped her hand away "Where’s Henry? What have you done to hi innocently

"Don’t you trust me? Really, Kate, you ive yourself wrinkles, and you wouldn’t want to spend an eternity looking like an old wo rumbled, and Calliope winked at me "That reminds me--I have someone ants to meet you" A dark-haired man appeared beside her, but he wasn’t solid like she was Instead the fog seeh him, as if they were one and the same, and when he stepped forward, I saw his eyes were ray that surrounded us

Cronus

"Kate, ," he ertips against hout my entire body "I have so looked forward to this moment" He looked like Henry That was the worst part He was older, but the shape of his face, the color of his hair that hung to his shoulders, even the way heabout him reminded me of Henry

Was there a physical resemblance? Henry was the eldest of the brothers--had he been created to look like Cronus?

Or was Cronus trying to look like hi ether "What did you do with them?"