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Isn’t it supposed to be gods who can strike people doith lightning?

Haden, a god? That is even y book for all the references of Hades More in an atte correct

Haden already has two strikes against hioes First, he’d already ad part Greek And second, there is the na Haden is only one letter off from Hades But that feels a little too on the nose

I scan the first page that references Hades, but it is o to the second reference and find a physical description of the god

Hades, god of the underworld and brother to Zeus, is usually depicted as being extreht …

Haden is tall At least six feet four But being tall doesn’tI mean, look at me

… with a muscular build

Another check nore hisheld in his ar a dark beard, and pale skin fro most of his time in the underworld

Haden doesn’t have a beard, but his hair is definitely dark and his skin is pretty pale for soet out in the sun much

Physical objects attributed to Hades are a chariot pulled by four fearsome black stallions …

Haden has a black car, but that is hardly the sa a chariot and horses

… a bident, the Key of Hades, and a three-headed dog named Cerberus

Ha There Haden doesn’t have any of those things And he has the world’s s that is pictured in my book

Hades’s most impressive possession is the Helm of Hades, a special helmet or cap that can turn the wearer invisible…

This one strikes a strange chord inside me I’ve never seen Haden with a hat, but I remember the way he seemed to materialize out of the shadows the first tirove And then there’s what happened when I was backstage at the auditions I’d been completely alone, and yet it had felt like someone had been back there with es with references to Hades I reread the story of Hades’s abduction of Persephone and can’t help ruirls--his own sister included--who have gonewhenever Lord fa in the book that says anything about Hades having the ability to produce and throw lightning The only Greek god with that power is supposed to be Zeus

I laugh derisively at myself This is insane! Maybe there really was so--in those cookies Lexie gave e, ale of a full-scale freak-out

Tobin is right I’d allowed et clouded, just like he’d said I’d let Haden in I’d kissed him

I’d almost fallen for hi is definitely wrong in Olympus Hills, and I have no doubt now that Haden and his family are at the center of it all

Which means that now I am, too

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