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“Kronos, please,” he begged, tears pouring down his face. “It wasn’t a big deal. She doesn’t matter.”

“Kronos won’t save you,” I said darkly. “He doesn’t care about dirty, dishonorable perverts like you.”

Pain scoured my chest as I activated my powers.

He struggled harder and screamed. “Someone h-help me!Please!”

I grabbed his chin roughly and yanked his head back, staring into his eyes.

“I’ll let you in on a secret,” I said, my voice flat and cold. “Alexis Hert matters morethan you could ever imagine—and she’s mine to protect. Do you know what that means? You violated one of my own.”

His eyes went impossibly wide. He whimpered louder as he realized the gravity of his mistake, and the true nature of the man in front of him.

Pain burned in my chest.

I slammed past his barely existent mental defenses and speared into his mind. His eyes exploded from the force of my intrusion.

“TEAR YOURSELF TO SHREDS,” I bellowed inside his head.

Chains rattled.

He ripped at his own flesh.

I stood still and watched as justice was served.

And smiled.

Chapter 23

Twisted Rage

Kharon

“The doctor better be near death,” I called out to Augustus as I leaped into the dungeon. Smoke billowed at my feet.

Rage seethed dark and hot in my chest, and my vision warped in and out of focus as I kept activating my powers.

The urge to kill—everyone—burned me alive.

I’d left Hell and Hound back in the library; their broken bones would heal in about a day.

My poor darling was in a lot of pain.

So were the hellhounds.

My knuckles cracked as I fisted my hands.Alexis almost died on that mountain. A Titan almost tore her to shreds. We almost lost her. Forever.

I stalked forward, deeper into the dungeon.

Augustus was standing in the shadows, eyes gleaming with danger as he stared at the unmoving, mutilated carcass of the doctor.

His expression was vicious.

He’d dropped the mask of fake pleasantness that he always wore around Olympians.

On the other side of the spacious room, chains rattled, and a second man moaned in pain.

We both ignored the noise.

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