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“You know it,” was his muffled response

Twisting at the waist, I glared at the back of Seth’s head He almost looked normal with his face planted into a pillow—my pillow Not like someone who’d become a God Killer in less than four months To our world, Seth was sort of like any ht deadly “I had a weird dream”

Seth rolled onto his side “Come on Go back to sleep”

Since we’d returned froo, he’d been up my butt like never before It wasn’t like I didn’t understand ith the whole furie business andto letin your own bed”

He turned his head slightly A sleepy smile spread across his face “I prefer your bed”

“I prefer that we actually celebrate Christet sos, but I don’t get what I want”

Seth tugged ht that pinned et what I want”

Afine shiver coursed over my skin “Seth?”

“Yeah?”

“You were in my dream”

One amber-colored eye opened “Please tell me ere naked”

I rolled my eyes “You’re such a perv”

He sighed led closer “I’ll take that as a no”

“You’d be correct” Unable to fall back to sleep, I started chewing on my lip So many worries surfaced at once that my brain spun “Seth?”

“Mmm?”

I watched hile further down into the pillow before I continued There was so about Seth when he was like this, a vulnerability and boyishness hting the furies?”

His eyes opened into thin slits This was a question I’d asked several tith and power I’d displayed as I’d faced the gods was so only Seth, as a full-blown Apollyon, should’ve been able to accomplish

As an un-Awakened half-blood? Yeah, not so ht the furies

Seth’s htened “Go back to sleep, Alex”

He refused to answer Again Anger and frustration rushed to the surface I flung his ar me?”

“You’re being paranoid” His arain

I tried wiggling out of his grasp, but his grip tightened Grinding my teeth, I rolled ontoparanoid, you asshat So looked amber Like the color of your eyes”

He blew out a long breath “I’ve heard that people in high stress situations have increased strength and senses”

“That wasn’t it”

“And that people can hallucinate while under pressure”

I swunghis head “I didn’t hallucinate”

“I don’t knohat to tell you” Seth lifted his aro back to class in the ?”

Instantly, a neorry surfaced Classeseveryone—Olivia—without my best friend Pressure built in my chest I squeezed my eyes shut, but Caleb’s pale face appeared, eyes wide and unseeing, a Covenant dagger shoved deep in his chest It seemed I could only remember what he’d really looked like in my dreams

Seth sat up, and I felt his eyes boring holes in my back “Alex…?”

I hated our super-special bond—absolutely loathed that whatever I was feeling fed into hihed “I’m fine”

He didn’t respond

“Yeah, I’ Marcus will have a fit when he gets back and realizes I haven’t been to class” I flopped onto my back “Seth?”

He inclined his heard toward h the darkness “Yeah?”

“When do you think they’re co back?” By they I ht It happened whenever I thought about Aiden and what he’d done for me—what he’d risked

Easing down on his side, Seth reached across h led in response The mark of the Apollyon—the one that shouldn’t be on my hand—warmed I stared at our joined hands, not at all surprised when I saw the faint lines—also thetheir way up Seth’s ar as the hten They’d been doing that a lot more lately—both the runes and his eyes

“Lucian said they’d be back soon, possibly later today” Very slowly, he moved the pad of his thumb down the line of the rune My toes curled asinto the blankets Seth smiled “No one’s mentioned the pure-blood Guard And Dawn Samos has already returned It appears Aiden’s compulsion worked”

I wanted to pull my hand free It was hard to concentrate when Seth messed with the rune onthe tool that he was, he liked it

“No one knohat really happened” His thumb now traced the horizontal line “And it’ll remain that way”

My eyes drifted shut The truth of how the pure-blood Guard had died would have to remain a secret, or both Aiden and I would be in deep trouble Not only had we alo and tell him that I loved him, which was totally forbidden—I’d killed a pure-blood out of self-defense And Aiden had used co a pure meant death for a half-blood, no matter the situation, and a pure was forbidden to use compulsion on another pure If any of it came out, we’d both be totally screwed