The Power (Titan #2) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Author:Jennifer L. Armentrout [Armentrout, Jennifer L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2016-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Seth

Never in my life had I wanted to lock a woman up in a titanium-encased room with an army of Hades’s Guards. Actually, that wasn’t entirely true. I’d wanted to do that a time or two with Alex, something Aiden would’ve been a hundred percent behind.

But it was different this time, because it was . . .

It was Josie.

“You guys got this handled from here?” I asked.

Aiden glanced down at where my hand was wrapped firmly around Josie’s. “There isn’t much left to do except . . .” He glanced around, frowning. “Clean up.”

“We got this,” Alex confirmed, her gaze darting to Josie. She shifted her weight from one foot to the next. “You okay with this?”

I cocked my head to the side. Did she legit just ask Josie if she was okay with this?

“Yeah.” Josie started to turn away but stopped. She extended her arm, offering the dagger. “I, um, took this from a Guard who . . . didn’t need it anymore. It’s not mine.”

Solos looked up from where he was checking out a fallen Sentinel. “You take out a daimon with it?”

She glanced down at the dagger and then nodded, surprising me. “Yeah, I . . . I took out a daimon with it.”

“Then it’s yours,” he said, sighing as he rose, brushing his hands off on his pants.

“Oh,” she whispered, and for a moment I was sort of struck stupid by the fact that she had managed to kill a daimon. And as I stared at Josie, her expression said she was also a bit surprised by it too.

The dread that had formed in my gut earlier now churned viciously. Completely stupid, but there was a huge part of me that didn’t like that she had killed a daimon, that she was even in the situation where it had to go down. Damn stupid. Because Josie had been created to be a weapon. There’d be a lot of killing in her future.

“Well, there you go.” I steered Josie around. “Check you guys later.”

Josie grumbled something under her breath when I started walking, tugging her along with me.

“Seth, this isn’t—”

“Not yet.” My voice was a low warning. “I don’t really trust myself to speak to you right now.”

Her gasp of outrage was audible as I led her around a dead daimon. “I think you’re completely overreacting!”

“And I think you don’t understand the words I just spoke to you.”

She tried to pull her hand free. She didn’t get anywhere. “You do realize that I’ve been training to fight? And that I’m a demigod? Oh, yeah, that’s right! You haven’t been around to know—”

“Gods,” I stopped suddenly, causing Josie to stumble. I caught her other arm, steadying her. “Do you have any idea what I felt when I turned around and saw you standing there with a damn dagger in your hand?”

Her gaze searched mine intently. “But that’s my duty.”

“I don’t care.” And the moment the words were out, they were the damn truth. “You’re not ready for this.

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