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“Hades, Hades, Hades.” He tsks. “I was just trying to maintain yer focus. It was only after I had kidnapped the girl that I realized that ye were just a boy, wrapped around her dainty little finger.”
Making hard eye contact with Ares, I keep circling him. He sees that I am not swayed by his teasing words and he bucks at that.
“I could have killed Persephone when I had the chance,” he says, grinning. “Maybe I should have.”
The rage that fills my veins begins to boil. Still, I don’t swing.
His brows arch. “How can ye be sure that it’s not my babe she’s carrying?”
He feints again. I don’t even block it this time, I just move two steps ahead of where he had planned me to be.
“Ye wish. Not like ye could keep a girl for more than a day or two. Girls say that they are looking for a big, strapping barbarian… then they run away when they see ye.”
Ares scowls. “Fuck you!”
He swings at my jaw, the movement incredibly powerful. Without a doubt, if he had actually hit me, I would probably be out cold. But I am too quick, using his own momentum to push him down. He snarls as he falls and grabs my ankle, tripping me up.
I land like a thousand pounds of rock coming to rest against the cool earth. Ares tries to wrestle me, vying for the spot on top.
But I use the last of my strength to dominate him, rising up on his chest and punching him in the face.
“Fuck yer stupid twat of a girlfriend!” he manages. “All ye had to do was keep things as they should be?—"
Eros lopes over to us, coming from somewhere out of sight and aiming a gun at us. I freeze up as he fires…
Only there is no explosion. Instead, four bolts stick into Ares’ skin. I scramble to get back just as Eros pulls the trigger. Ares seizes up and emits a yelp.
I look at Eros, puzzled. “Ye brought a taser?”
Eros shrugs and tosses the weapon to the ground. Ares grits his teeth and pulls at the bolts, flinging them away from himself.
“Fuck!”
Eros looks at me, pulling a face. “Are we cool?”
“Fuck off,” I bite out, irritated as all get out.
I struggle to my feet again, ignoring the hand that Eros offers. Ares is already getting up and dusting himself off.
“Fuck ye both,” he mutters. “I’m done with ye.”
He turns around and lumbers off in a random direction. Wiping away the blood from my eye again, I heave a sigh.
Eros winces and touches his jaw tenderly. “I think one of ye actually might have dislocated my jaw.”
Shaking my head at him, I slowly start heading toward the town’s center. Eros trails behind me, griping about how he’s hurt and why he originally came here.
“Ma called and said that ye wanted to talk,” he moans.
“Will ye shut up?”
“I knew it was too good to be true,” he continues on, as if I hadn’t spoken. “Should’ve followed my gut instinct.”
Eventually the clinic comes into view. Hurrying along, only now thinking that I’d left Penny unprotected, I jog the last fifty meters.
Busting into the clinic, I steel myself for something bad to have happened. I don’t know what, exactly. Only that I need to be ready.
But when I step in the door, I find Penny sitting on a stool and giggling. By her feet Diana kneels, pressing her ear to Penny’s stomach.
