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He nodded at the far end of the parking lot “Golden convertible just pulled up”
Prudence craned her neck “You ht?”
I groaned “This again”
The Greek god of the sun had a strange enchantaudy car he liked to drive around, the modern manifestation of his beloved chariot, that same one that was supposed to draw the sun across the sky in all the ancient myths
Gil growled as he followed the rest of us rubbernecking to look for Apollo and his et here Look at hi in all the attention”
Basking was one way to put it, and pretty apt, if you askthe disproportionate aiving him He’d just stepped out of the driver’s seat, his white linens unbuttoned to show off his torso Arteer side, her face dark with fury as she swatted at the air, pressing her way through the gaggle of girls gathered around her brother Where had all those women even come from?
“Grab some extra chairs for the twins,” Prudence said
“Already on it,” Asher said, dragging a couple of seats over, giving the gods places of honor at opposite ends of our table
It took longer than expected – I had time to suck down half of a fresh daiquiri – but Apollo finally gave up on his brazen peacocking, plied with attention and possibly some limp napkins and receipts with hastily scrawled phone numbers on them
“You should just carry around business cards to hand out to all your ad so hard that it felt as if the sun had left the sky to join us for a drink
“I do Reave you oneon the floor Beside hed softly, like he’d noticed “But I don’t like having my number out there jus
t with any old person You were special, Graves” He winked again This time I had to clutch onto my seat for support
“Apollo,” Arte and let’s get down to business” She swept a lock of beautifully curled hair away fro it behind her ear A simple blink of her eyes, and the ferocityfor me, Dustin?”
I ruh my pockets, then stretched out across the table to hand her the scroll, the deed that Odin had extracted fro passed across Arteainst the parch If there was power in the deed, I couldn’t detect it She certainly damn well could
She unfurled the scroll in one swiftquick as she read its contents I wasn’t sure which bit of it she saw that did it, but her eyes welled up with tears Asher – sweet Asher – forgot hioddess of the moon and the hunt on the back of the hand That’s just who he was Arteratefully