“Jayden.” I grip his arm. “I think that’s fair. He can take her with him to be secured so she can’t work for the queen anymore.”
“Okay, take Pandora and the two of you go to the underworld to face my father’s judgment. We have a world to save.” Jayden shakes his head.
“You are better demigods than I have ever encountered.” Prometheus bows his head.
He saunters over to the unconscious Pandora and scoops her up in his arms before bowing to us and transporting away.
“Well, I did not have that on my bingo card for this mission,” I say with a sigh.
“What did you have on this nonexistent bingo card, love?” Jayden kisses my temple.
“I don’t know but not anything we’ve faced so far. Except maybe Argus but I didn’t count on him being…” I sigh.
“Strong enough on his own that he almost defeated us?” Jayden asks as he grabs my hand and leads me to the SUV.
“Right, that. I’m also scared. We don’t have the elixir anymore. I fucking dropped it like an idiot.”
“You mean this?” Adrian asks, holding up a vial of red liquid.
“Where? What?” I gasp, taking the bottle from him.
“My father must have seen it. He slipped it to me just after your vial shattered.” Adrian shrugs. “I guess he really is on our side even though he pretends otherwise because he has to.”
I cup the precious bottle between my hands and send a prayer of thanks to Apollo for his foresight. If he hadn’t gotten this before the games, I would never forgive myself for dropping that bottle and dooming everyone.
“Also, I want you to know that if you ever call yourself an idiot for dropping something while paralyzed from poison, you will not like the punishment, love. That was not your fault. You were literally dying.” Jayden snarls.
“He’s right. No one would have blamed you, well except maybe you.” Raven shrugs.
That one mistake letting that asshole too close to me with his tiny blade could have doomed us all, though we may still be doomed because I have a feeling Hera isn’t through with us yet and each battle will be more deadly than the last.
