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I can already feel my bones mending themselves back together, but it hurts like a goddamn bitch. Pain threatens to send me sinking into oblivion, but I know I need to stay conscious if I have any chance of destroying Zeus. What’s one broken wrist?

The bones continue to snap and bend as my body attempts to repair itself. It almost hurts worse than the initial break.

Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

“You dare try to kill me?!?!” Zeus screams, holding the arrow that he somehow captures in mid-air. Blood oozes from his hand.

“Cal, run!” I scream, keenly aware of the malicious glint in Zeus’s eyes, one that promises death and destruction to everyone in the immediate vicinity. My breaths shudder in and out as I attempt to clamor to my feet. Fear envelopes me like a depthless ocean that threatens to swallow me whole.

Cal bares his teeth at Zeus and prepares another arrow, aiming it at Zeus’s heart this time.

But Zeus simply lifts his hand, the movement decidedly lazy, and Cal goes sailing through the air, hitting the wall with a loud bang.

“Cal!” I scream, tears streaking my cheeks.

Please be alive.

Please be alive.

Please be alive.

Cal groans weakly and attempts to sit up.

“You know...” Zeus studies his nails, as if he hasn’t a care in the world. “This battle could be over in seconds if I chose to activate the runes on your mates’ flesh and use them to do my bidding.” A sadistic grin warps his features as he finally focuses on me. “Do you think that would destroy them, Violet? Killing you?”

“You dumb fuck.” I laugh humorlessly as I finally straighten my spine, shaking out my now healed wrist. “We removed the magic from those runes weeks ago. You can’t control jack shit.” I gnash my teeth together and advance on him. “You’re on your own here.”

Something explosive unfurls in my chest. Something ironically...cold. Icy. It cools my veins, stealing all the warmth from my body.

What is this emotion twisting up my insides and casting a red sheen over my vision?

It takes me a second too long to recognize it.

Wrath.

I’m angry. So fucking angry.

This creature before me murdered my mate, one of the greatest loves of my life, and he won’t hesitate to do that again. Who knows what he did to my parents? Perhaps they’re already dead.

The world won’t be safe until Zeus has been eliminated once and for all.

My breaths turn labored, and my mind reels, trying its damnedest to catch up to some inevitable conclusion I already made. My heart’s so heavy it seems to be expanding in a slowly closing vise.

It ends today.

Now.

Speckles of red descend across my vision, lancing across it like fire, as I continue to stalk forward, my gaze intent on Zeus.

“What do you think you’re doing, Violet?” Zeus laughs raucously, quite literally throwing his head back and airing his amusement to the universe.

But the universe won’t save him today.

No one will.

I lose myself to the rage inside of me.

CHAPTER 36

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