“You would do that?” The words force their way out of my mouth, sounding small. “You could hurt me?” He grabs me roughly by the shoulders, and the look in his eyes is so cold, so remote that I can’t help the shiver that spears me like a harpoon. The true Hades has looked at me that way before—when he was trying to break my heart purposely. I’ve lived it twice now. “I keep telling you,” he snarls. “I’m not him. I’m a different beast entirely.” I don’t know what I’m expecting. Maybe a quick snap of my neck, maybe a surge of power ending me, all before I wake up in a new timeline, oblivious to
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