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Somewhere in the house, doors slammed open and someone shouted one word
"Earthquake!"
Earthquake!
Relief punched hed loudly and a bit crazily Just an earthquake
Duh
I was in southern California
Not everything had to be supernatural
Lowering the dagger, I turned to the spiral staircase Several half-asleep people stood there, and of course, I was using the terle mortal in the house
The shaking subsided as Deacon ran his fingers through his ru a hand over his eyes His bronze-colored hair was sticking up in every direction Standing beside them was Gable Poor Gable We’d literally plucked him off a beach, told hiod whose poere bound, and then he witnessed up close and personal what a Titan was capable of
The fact that he was standing there and not rocking in a corner somewhere was ad ti to his voice "We’ll definitely get an aftershock froray eyes widened "Aftershock?"
Gable nodded "Or that could’ve been a foreshock You never really know"
"What is that?" Deacon lowered his hand, frowning "Like an uncircumcised earthquake?"
Aiden, his older brother, lifted his chin and stared at the ceiling, slowly shaking his dark head There were no two brothers less alike Well, maybe Lucifer and Michael They were brothers
My lips twitched into a tired smile as Gable explained exactly what a foreshock was Aiden reached out, draping an arm over the shoulders of Alex Andros Her hair was a mess, but a sexy ers in an electrical outlet, but not Alex Hers was a tumble of wavy locks
She was beautiful in a wild, unfettered way, and while we’d tentatively bonded over our shared tiods and our truly weird relation to Apollo, I wasn’t nearly as close to her as Deacon and Luke were
She and Aiden were legends, actual legends
And they were so in love with one another that there was no doubt inno one else
Aiden placed a hand on the railing as he stared down into the atriuo to the spot mine had when I’d first entered, to where the Titan Atlas had stood, holding Solos’s heart in his one all God Killer on everyone, tapping into all our powers, our aether, and killing Atlas
So Seth should not have been able to do