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I’m about to tell him to fuck off, but I don’t, because Remy comes sprinting through the cathedral doors, her bridesmaids dress hitched up to her shins. She’s not wearing her shoes.
People gasp as she goes by, and I hear one person—I don’t know who, and I don’t see which pew they’re in—sayIs thatNatalie?Someone else shushes them.
The string quartet stops playing. Maybe I am having a nervous breakdown, because I can hear the silence rising from where they are and going up to the ceiling of the cathedral. A pocket of empty space where sound should have been.
Remy has a piece of paper clutched in her fist. She’s shock-white, except for two red spots in her cheeks, and every second she runs toward us stops my entire heart because I haven’t seen an expression like that on her face for a long time. So long that her face flickers back into her younger self every other step. She’s seven, and then it’s now. Seven. Now.
As she’s scrambling up the stairs to us, footstepsclickon my left.
“Hades, what the fuck?” Poseidon says.
He doesn’t answer. A door opens, then closes.
I can’t take my eyes off Remy.
She stops one step below me.
“She’s—gone.” My sister hassprintedhere, and she’s out of breath. “Elise thought she locked the door from the inside, but when we got someone to open it, she wasn’t there. She’sgone.”
“What the fuck are you talking about?”
Remy shoves the paper into my hand, and I uncrumple it.
“Lily’s gone. This was in the bridal suite.”
I can feel her staring at me, but all I can do is smooth out the paper in my hand.
Jameson—
I’m sorry. I don’t want to do this. I changed my mind and I won’t marry you. I won’t be part of your coldhearted criminal life. I’ve always hated Snowballs, and I know where I belong now. Please do not come looking for me.
Lilith
“Somebody took her,” I say, mostly to the letter.
“What?” It’s Mason and Gabriel at the same time.
By the time I hear the question, they’re already behind me, and I’m not turning around for anything.
I’m running to find Lily, as fast as I can go.
I’m running for my life.
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