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"I’m kind of surprised you knohat Christhed as she looked down at herself "I smell like a coffee shop now"

Seth touched ers, but it sent a tight shiver dancing over ivenattention to lad you decided to pop yourself into the roolanced at Alex She s Aiden go by himself to check out the shades," I told hi "It takes you how long to pop people back and forth? Seconds? I’ll be fine for a few seconds" Even though I believed that, a icy trickle of fear cli to take Alex"

He stared at ain "Did you talk her into this?"

She rolled her eyes "Yes Because she doesn’t have a lared at hiht call"

Seth leaned back, popping a booted foot on the edge of the coffee table "I’ll think about it, but I need to tell you--"

"Don’t try to distract me" I twisted toward him "Alex needs--"

"I just saw Apollo," Seth cut in

"What?" He’d officially distracted me

Alex lurched forward in her chair "Where?"

Seth’s eyes roaaze "I summoned him in the temple Apparently, if you shed your blood over flaod in a te, because I didn’t knohat to say My father had been here, on this island, and he hadn’t come to seeover and picking up ood news" Alex clasped her knees "We just need to get Hades here"

"He’s not going to come here, not even if the te in the courage departed on the fact that my father had been here and I hadn’t seen him

"Because of you?" Alex asked

Seth didn’t even try to hide his little s down there to talk with Hades He has to co, and I could feelfelt like it had been stung All I could think was that he was here and--Wait Maybe Seth hadn’t let him see me "Did hedid he try to see me?"

He didn’t iht then I started to pull htened He pulled me toward him, and I wanted to resist, but the ave in I planted ainst the stupid, pointless burn in theood conversation," Seth said after a moment His free hand smoothed over my cheek "And I think he knew the "

I smiled weakly and pretended I didn’t know that Seth was actuallyexcuses for Apollo Because it wasn’t for him It was for me, and I did appreciate it, but it didn’t erase the hurt

My father had been on the absentee list nearly my entire life He let my mom sink into mental illness that may or h so , lonely su, and if he’d wanted to see me he would’ve Seth wouldn’t have stopped him, and even if he had, Apollo could’ve found a way around him

The ache in my chest spread, and I didn’t even knohy it hurt so led into Seth and slowly opened my eyes, I realized that Apollo was

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