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"Gods" Pain flickered across Seth’s beautiful face as he tookhis around mine

"And when they finally caed out of the roo more than a piece of trash" Tears blurred my vision and then my body jolted at the realization "Mitchell--Mitchell is still there, Seth We have to get him" I pulled my hands free once more and started to rise fro arm I turned wide eyes on hi" Seth’s voice was too level, too cal? "You don’t understand We have to go back and get him Seth, he was in bad shape, and I hadn’t seen him in--I don’t kno er"

If he was still alive, but I couldn’t bring ently turned ain flush with the s, but you’re not going back there"

I opened ht now I’ you need to be doing is roaer" Those aht where you are, resting and getting better"

"I’ into fists

His brows flew up "Have you seen yourself, Josie? There is barely an inch of skin that isn’t bruised You’re exhausted and can barely stand, and I can’t feel--" He cut hiaze searched mine "I can barely feel any aether in you, Josie"

My stomach churned "They"

"I knohy, Josie I see the bite marks" Those eyes turned luht now, all you need to be concerned with is getting better That is all Please"

A couple of moments passed before I could speak "I can’t just sit here and pretend that Mitchell doesn’t exist"

"I’up, I knocked a strand of hair back from my face "They have hier"

Seth didn’t respond

"If you won’t let o back to where you found et him--"

"No"

Stunned, I blinked and then drew back "Please Please I can’t just forget about them--about Mitchell You can’t ask that ofhis jaw "I don’t expect you to forget about hi the roiling sensation in ht now, they have no idea where we are, but we’re not warded against Titans or any other god I’ain You’re aze met mine "You’re all thatriver within led with the very real pain that had settled into every joint andway to the terror that still hummed under my skin "But you already left me!"

Seth flinched as his back stiffened

I wanted to take back those words, but I couldn’t and I couldn’t stop what came out of my mouth next "You left me already You left o, so how can I be all thatspace, I scooted over Seth went to blockakin to pain flickered across his face as he pulled his ar like it had been stretched too tight I walked a few feet away and then stopped, standing on treed the hair back fro that to hiet about Mitchell My life wasn’t more important than his

"I deserved that," Seth said, voice low I opened my eyes, but didn’t face him "I did leave you And I wasn’t there for you when you found out about your mom or when Hyperion came for you I let you down in the worst possible way I cannot say I’h I’ll never be able to make up for how I failed you"

My throat burned "Youyou didn’t knohat happened"