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His eyes widened as his body jolted once more, and he opened his mouth to speak but seemed at a loss of what to say Then his chest rose sharply "Okay I’ll help you"

I pushed away from the wall "I can do it I just need toknohere a bathroom is"

"Josie, stop You can barely stand up" He reached out again, and this time he didn’t stop He carefully wrapped his hands around my upper arms I winced and wasn’t sure if it was because his touch hurt or because he was touching me "Please let me help you"

We stood nearly toe-to-toe in silence I was staring at his throat this tiers Two people who had split in life and gone in two very different directions, unexpectedly brought back together

"I’ to help you," Seth said after ato happen"

Too weak to really fight him on this, I nodded, and Seth moved so fast, I had no idea how I ended up in his ar on his shoulder, and ain There were so many times while I was held by Hyperion that I’d feared I’d never be in Seth’s ar soo

Tears pricked the lids of s to cry and stress over, and nownow this

He was striding down the hall and ere back in the bedroom within a blink of an eye

Seth walked to a set of double doors across froed them open with his booted foot He was quiet as he set me down on the ri pool "Shower or bath?" he asked quietly

Looking around the opulent bathroo the whitebath towels "Thisthis is your horew up" Seth knelt in front ofthe fact he didn’t refer to it as his houest bedrooms and baths"

Holy crap, what did the master bedroom look like then?

"Do you wantin a bath sounded wonderful, but the water would be so gross after a second of aze for a , he walked over to an enclosed, step-down shower There was no curtain, but with the high wall around it, there was no need Well, for most people I would most likely flood the bathroom

As he turned on the water and the overhead rainfall shower caan to sink in that I was free That I wasn’t going to wake up and find Hyperion loo to be forced into another roo second A shudder worked its way through me, and a s in front of ain, his hands ons Scared Sore Confused Relieved Hurting Exhausted My heart felt like it had broken a thousand times in a span of a few days

"That’s not true It was a stupid question for ers on my cheek "I wish I could take the pain away I would do anything to do that for you"