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Chapter 1

Seth

Doing the right thing had never felt ht then

Maybe that was how it always felt

I wouldn’t know

It was so rare when I actually did the right thing

My knuckles ached fro wheel Every cell in o back to Josie, because she was ed with her, in her and beside her

But I couldn’t

Everything had changed now

Heady, deadly power churned deep insidean Apollyon felt like Oh no, this was like the Apollyon on steroids I had a feeling that the unexpected awakening, the evensubsequent ability to kill Atlas, was just the beginning of what I was capable of, because the entire world was different to me now

The sky was a shade I’d never seen before The sea off the Pacific Coast Highas a dizzying kaleidoscope of blues Skin sensitized, I could feel the dampness in the air I inhaled and it tasted of sea and salt I was going dao faster--that I should be going faster

And I was hungry

Not for food

For what lived and breathed inside of the pures and the halfs, the deods, and inside of Josie

I couldn’t be around her

It was too dangerous

Miles were between Josie and me now, and soon there’d be thousands, and it had to stay that way, but II could still feel her body beneath ainstin as, I knehere to go A place far fro A place where I could think and plan, because I was going to take out every singleawheel to the right The tires squealed Dust along the eer seat

That godsda besidehis doeskin pants, and he was as glittery as a da the wheel before we careened off the highway A crash wouldn’t killout how indestructible my skin could be "You could’ve caused me to wreck"

"As if your life isn’t already a wreck?" he replied, shtly "The ansould be yes--yes, your life is a wreck"

I gripped the steering wheel "What in the fuck of all fucks do you want?"

"We need to talk"

Anger rippled underwe need to talk about"

"Oh, there is" The nyine cut off without any additional warning

Cursing in every language I kneas able to coast the SUV to the narrow side of the road, between two large boulders I dropped my hands and twisted toward hiers"

"You could And limmered "But not today"

"I don’t know about that" Akasha crackled over low over the interior of the SUV It came to me so easily I barely even had to think about it "I’m really not in the hly, I worked a kink out of my neck "Careful, nyh she’s unprotected?"

"She is not unprotected" Unease brewed deep in h she ith the incredibly happy duo known as Alex and Aiden, and even though she was a deerous However, I knew from previous experience that the Titans would retreat for a while After losing Atlas, they wouldn’t co me time to search theerous to her

There was so inside me, and it was cold and cruel I could taste it I could feel it, and it wanted to devour Josie

"You’ve made your choice, God Killer?"