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around, my fingers already clawing at the handle, locked, of course it was. I s

", I sc

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ed but still the

ssive and canopied in deep velvet curtains, the fabric a shade of blood red that matched the raging fury boiling inside me. The gold lined furniture gleamed under warm chandelier lights. A glass coffee ta

ws, not a single one. I walked to one of the walls, dragging my fingers across the cold marble. The lack of air movement, the quiet hum of the artificial light of the chandeliers, it all sank in like we

I yelle

oor, burying my head in my arms. I didn't want to cry, not for him, not for Hades, not for any of them but my body didn't care what I wanted. My shoulders shook, Gio was dead and I was next. No, not exactly, not dead, worse. I was trapped. Minutes or hours, I couldn't really tell, pa

A small glint above the closet, too high for anyone to casually notice. I squinted at it for a while before going back into the ro

tiny, bl

wo more, one near the bed, another over the door. I spun, suddenly hyper aware of every move I'd made in the last hour. Th

I shouted t

nted to see? You sic

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room, my rules, if I was going to be trapped like an animal, I wasn't going to be on display like one. But even then... even with the

was in for a rude awakening. I thought of Gio again. His voice whispering assurances, telling me he would always be there to protect me

had

y but Hades didn't flinch. One second Gio was alive, the next he wasn't. That was power, that was Hades. I didn

in my head", I whi

click echoed from t

ed in the wall crackled to life an

ouse. You'll need you

jumped to my feet. "Who th

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com, pressing the

the hell are y

ng the line disconnected. I backed

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as trapped in it, with hidden watchers, twisted games and cryptic threats. But I wasn't going t