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CHAPTER 36

Author: June Sibyl
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Jace’s Pov

We will be landing in Athens soon. To say that the flight had been terrible would be an understatement. It was complete hell. My mental health is at wits. I have the boy Hades demands. Thank God Eros had a doctor with him otherwise I would have been delivering a dead body.

I rubbed my forehead with my fingers. I am having a crushing headache. I hate things like this related to children. I drew my line there years ago.

The black screen in front of me took me to places I would rather avoid. Even with a private jet, it was a long distance to Athens from here.

With all the situation going on it felt as if time was moving with the speed of a turtle.

Weird.

At our happy moments we want to time to become like this. That it slows down and never passes. But at the time calamity we want it to race pasts us. The truth is its never takes the speed we desire. It keeps on moving at the pace it wants.

If it would have been at or beck and call, we would be living the moments with our loved
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