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Still willing to give up her freedom to be near him? Damn her He fell a little more in love with her "Go! Did you not hear et it? You make odsdamned tears "You don’t mean that You can’t mean that" The last hispered brokenly

His heart constricted painfully Do it Finish it "I’d rather be killed or locked away than look at you another moment Because every time I look at you, I’ you, wanting to punish you, but I took things too far Even forhio"

For a long while, she didn’t speak He knew she didn’t flash away, either, for he heard no rustle of clothing But then, he did hear a whi

Gods, he couldn’t do it He couldn’t send her away like this He spun, rab on to her and tell her the truth, to force her to listen To one before their eyes could meet and his hands encountered only air

"YOU INSOLENT FOOL!"

Atlas peered up at the fu else His wrists were chained to poles, forcing him to remain on his knees The very collar he’d removed from Nike was norapped around his own neck

He’d known this would happen, but he hadn’t cared He still didn’t Nike was free, and that was all that mattered

"Have you nothing to say for yourself?"

"No"

"One Greek can raise an army That army can attack us Ruin us I told you that, and still you defied me"

"Nike won’t do that," he said confidently He trusted her to disappear Even as angry as she had to be with hier herself to save people she had never truly liked

Cronus slaainst the arm of his throne, ever the petulant child "You can’t know that! You aren’tto be cowed "Would you risk being iain to help your fellow Titans? I may not be able to see all the secrets of the heavens and Hell, yet I know you would not She will not, either"

The king had no response to that, but that didn’t stop hi "You disobeyed a direct order, and for that you will be punished"

"I understand" He offered the statement without hesitation It was the truth He understood that the god king had to make an example out of him Otherwise, others would see Cronus as weak They would disobey him as Atlas had

"I think you actually do" So I saw a portrait of you A portrait painted by my Eye With it, she showeds at his side "You knohat to do, sweet Sienna"

Sienna strode forward, a knife appearing in her hand She stopped in front of Atlas and dropped to her knees, placing theht The end As an iht to reach this point Still He found he only regretted that he hadn’t had otten the chance to apologize for his harsh words the last tiether and that he would never have the chance to confess his love

With absolutely no e the tip of the blade into his wrist and cut out his sensor, rather than chop off his head That’s when he realized Cronus meant to lock him away rather than kill him Good More time to think about Nike and what could have been

But then Sienna , but that was not what ainst heraway Nike’s na for all he orth Guards were called over and hard hands settled over hiht, but in the end, they ed to remove all four letters

As each person walked away fro, watery eyes Blood poured down his chest and four open wounds stared up at hiht have hated that brand at one point in his life, but he’d grown to love it as iven it to hi evidence of her presence

His hands fisted, and his back straightened Blood and sweatfurther Another roar burst fro He didn’t stop until his throat was shredded from the strain

"Are you quite finished?" Cronus asked hi "I will destroy you for this," his vowed brokenly "One day you will die bytold his guards, unconcerned "Where he will rot for all eternity"