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It was the male

Relief nearly ood Gingerly tipping ainst the wall, I sed hard "I’mI’m Josie You?"

A few moments passed "Mitchell My name is Mitchell Cousins"

I repeated his name in my head

"Do you" His breath hitched "Do you knohat they are, why they have you?"

Resting my arms in my lap, I focused on the shadowy outline of Mitchell "They’re Titans and theythey’re feeding on us"

He coughed out a broken, dry laugh "So I’ isis really happening"

"Yeah It’s really happening You’re aa bound de as sharp pain stabbed the back of uys We knew you two had been taken--"

"You knew about this before they got you?" Surprise colored his tone

"II found out what I was about a year ago" I wasn’t sure how uy who had been in here for nearly a year "My father sent soht him off, and we couldn’t find you two"

Mitchell didn’t respond for a longfor you?"

My chest ached "Yes"

"Will they find us?"

"Theythey will try," I said, hurting for hiirl who hadn’t moved once since I’d been here I’d told the truth Alex and Aiden would try to find me So would Deacon and Luke, and if Seth knew, he’d try I believed that I really did But I had no idea how they could find us I strained to see hiy darkness "Do you knoho the other person is?"

"That’s Lauren" His voice sounded like sandpaper "I don’t know her well"

Glancing at where she lay, I didn’t see a single part of heryou’ve been here?"

He shuddered "I don’t know It’s beena while She was here before me, and they"

"They what?" I whispered

Mitchell didn’t respond right away "The big dudeNot the one who brought you in"

"Hyperion?" Just saying his name made ot a mohawk Blue hair, I think" Mitchell paused and seeth to continue "He co, it was likeevery time I ake he was in here and he’d"

Part ofher out of here and I don’t think they’d go very far She would screaht hi to her" His voice cracked, and ht "Hehe would hurt her He would do things to her I could hear it"

Oh gods

Horror robbed ainst s Hyperion had said to me had been repeatedly carried out on her

"I triedI tried to stop hiot to believe me I tried I really--"

"I believe you" Tears burned ainst the wall "I believe you"

When he spoke, his voice was hoarser than before "Hehe just feeds off her now Does it right here, and II can’t stop hi it at the knee I couldn’t even begin to fatho through "Who comes for you?"