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Whatever his death caused orth it to ensure that Josie never had to live in fear of his return Cronus was also onthat at this ree with you nine out of ten ti with Hyperion, I understand If I’d had a chance to kill Ares, I would’ve taken it"

My gaze met his "And if you’d had a chance to kill me, you would’ve taken it"

"Yes Yes, I would’ve"

"Glad we’re on the sao"

I didn’t wait for Aiden’s response, taking us to the location where the Sentinel Aiden had been in contact with had told us to meet Within seconds, ere in the sticky, murky air of Houston

"Gods!" a deeparound, I sroup of Sentinels "Yes?"

The Sentinel in the middle, the one who had spoken, took a step back His eyes ide as the sun glistened off his deep brown skin The other three Sentinels looked like they were close to passing out

Aiden moved to stand beside me "Torin?"

He nodded "You warned od, but I just wasn’t prepared for that" The half glanced in od"

My smile kicked up a notch

One of the Sentinels behind hiod And yes, he can do all the cool god things, but we really have liet the shock and awe out of the way, that would be great"

I slid Aiden a long look "Well, that takes the fun out of everything"

He ignored me "What do you have for us, Torin?"

Torin appeared to snap out of his shock as he ran a hand over his closely cropped dark hair "As you knoe have had quite a lot of pures gorecently, but we’ve had few daimon attacks"

"We’ve actually barely seen any daier brunette who barely looked old enough to be out of the Covenant "So that right there was suspicious"

"We have mandatory escorts in place when the pures leave the co trip that we learned ere dealing with shades They’d possessed several roups," Torin explained, resting one hand on the handle of a dagger "There was only one survivor They confirmed what happened"

"So why are we on this roof in the baking sun of Houston?" I asked

The fe past us to the cee of the roof She easily hopped up "See the office building three blocks down? The tall one with the pyra

"As we told you, we’ve been tracking e believe to be the shades Other than theirs the "We’re pretty positive that’s where they’ve been holing up"

"Is it an active office building?" Aiden asked, and of course, he sounded concerned "Are therein there?"

"Yes" Torin joined the fe off Looks like the upper two floors are actually penthouse-type roo, surrounded by what appears to be mortals who aren’t possessed and probably have no idea what is going on"