t answer my question. He just turned his broad
began tearing through the meager be
bag in the corner. I clutched it to my chest, burying my face
. I stumbled up the concrete stairs,
SUVs. The neighbors were peeking
is little legs hitting the pavement. He sprinted toward me
mmediately dropped to my knees and hugged him tigh
. His eyes were fixed on where my hands touched Jace's back. He was
the boy only deepened the unnatu
thick stack of papers bound in blac
"You sign this, you belong to The Ninth Circle. You breathe a
ked up at Apollo, my eyes wide and clueless. "If... if I si
"You stay inside my fortress, and no one
leeve. "Please stay
reached out with a shaking han
d The Nobody in the exact same messy, s
dark satisfaction gleamed in
Apollo ordered. He turned and cli
ed with a heavy, metallic thud. I pulled Jace onto my lap
oy began
th my left hand, hidden beneath the folds of my oversized shirt, I peeled a micro-tracker th
tared out the window. "Run her
t. A few loan sharks looking for her, but
d still feel the phantom coolne
into the wealthy, isolated stretches
e way the branches were pruned-cleared to pr
hm, but I kept my eyes wide, my m
, a terrifying Wyvern crest welded in
rie. The most heavily fortifi
. The terrified girl vanished from my
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