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I faced hi, "He can have rin went up tenfold "I et that he thinks he…he doesn’t deserve ?"

"He toldthis past year" When Deacon’s face fell, I sighed "There’sainst the arm of the loveseat "Seth will definitely murder me for this, but there’s a lot you don’t know--that I think you need to know"

A sudden shiver wrapped its way down hed "I’ you this because I think it will help you understand where Seth is coot to be ready to hear this, Josie The Seth you kno is not the Seth we all knew back then"

My stomach tumbled "I’m ready to hear"

Deacon pursed his lips as he lowered his hand "I’ us now It’s the story of Seth and Alex"

Chapter 27

MY CHEST felt like it had a ht?"

He nodded "Alex is short for Alexandria She’s named after her dad He’s a Sentinel here Runs around Doesn’t speak Kind of scares the shit out of hter, but anyway, she was also another Apollyon Awesoet one part of the story out of the way first"

"Okay," I whispered Out of everything I thought about Seth’s past, I never thought it involved another girl

"Alex is in love with my brother He’s in love with her They have this epic kind of love Always-have, alill kind of shit They shouldn’t have been together, because he’s a pure and she was a half, but they made it work They did it"

That made me feel better A little

"But Alex was never meant to be with eneration as another--as Seth They were ether It was how they were built, to be each other’s other half"

I openedcame out Okay That did not ht to Deity Island to guard Lucian He was Alex’s stepfather, also ran the Council, and a very big douchebag Seth didn’t know that Alex existed She didn’t know about him You see, when they first met, Alex was seventeen, and the Apollyon doesn’t cohteen Seth was already the Apollyon, and as far as we knew, he was the only one, but he wasn’t Alex swears that Seth didn’t know, that he was just as shocked as she was The two of them didn’t hit it off at first" He paused "Well, most people didn’t hit it off with Seth"

I remembered what it was like when I first met him Totally understandable

"He could be a dick Either you loved him or you hated him, but almost everyone feared him," he explained "Anyway, turns out that Lucian knew the whole ti with Ares, and Lucian ether, because when there are two Apollyons, so crazy can happen One of them can tap into the other and become the God Killer And if you happen to control the God Killer, you control everything Because the God Killer can, obviously, kill gods That’s a big deal"

All of this was fascinating, but a bubble of dread began to for ether,’ do you ether?"

There was a pause and he nodded "Alex always loved my brother, but like I said, it wasn’t easy for them at times Aiden pushed her away to keep her safe, and with Seth and Alex both being Apollyons, they were connected in a way that is hard to explain They knehen the other was in trouble They could feel things about each other I know they…they, uh, messed around, but, Josie, what they felt for one another…wasn’t so Yeah, they cared for each other Maybe even loved one another, in a way, but not in the way you’ve got to worry about, okay? What was between the irl out there was connected to Seth, could, like, feel him?

"Seth was never supposed to be the Apollyon," he continued "Throughout history, except for one instance, Apollo has always created the Apollyon, but Seth was born a few years before Alex The gods knew that one of the to create the God Killer One of the with Lucian, right? Lucian got to Seth No one kno, but it became painfully clear that Lucian had some kind of weird parental control over Seth He doted on Seth, ood"

Oh no Maybe that sounded weird to Deacon, to everyone else, but I got how it could happen Seth had a crap ic to think that Seth secretly, --wanted someone as like a parent to love and care for hirandparents, I would’ve been lost