Never in a million years could I imaginethis.
“Yep,” Augustus said.
My jaw dropped as my barely trained wife leapttowardthe Titan with two daggers raised, stabbing it at point-blank range.
The creature shrieked in pain as it spun, trying to dislodge her.
She held on.
I covered my mouth as talons sliced through her back, exposing bone. I waited for her to fall back, to pass out, to collapse.
Alexis shook her head and tightened her grip. Somehow, withher back torn to shreds, she held on and dug her knives deeper into the Titan, dragging them down through its belly.
The Titan collapsed and she straddled it.
Two-colored eyes wide, black blood splattered across the delicate bridge of her nose, Alexis stabbed at the creature without mercy.
She was the most powerful, beautiful thing I’d ever seen in my fucking life.
Without help, Alexis had incapacitated a Titan that was more powerful than any we’d ever seen. It was limp beneath her. She reached for her cuffs.She’s doing it.
The camera panned to the side.
The other Titan was getting to its feet.
No.
Alexis’s hands slipped as she desperately fumbled with the cuffs. She didn’t have time, and she was badly injured.
“RUN!” I yelled at the screen.
The Titan was on her before I could blink.
She was gone.
The camera tipped back. Alexis was rising through the air, locked in the Titan’s grasp as it flew straight up—higher and higher, until she was nothing more than a dot in the sky.
Human voices screamed with horror as they pointed.
Crack.
A concrete table exploded as Alexis and the Titan slammed into it.
The camera zoomed in on where my wife was crawling through the smoke and rubble.
“What the fuck?” I whispered.
“She somehow leapt from midair to a controlled spot on the ground,” Augustus said, pure awe in his voice. “While she was badly injured …witha Titan.”
“That shouldn’t be possible.”
“No fuck.”
“And it’s such a short distance—how is she doing that?”
“I have … no idea.”
The House of Hades was known for its might, but this was next level. We both watched in shock as our blood-covered wife stumbled to her feet. She focused on the pathetic humans, like she was more worried about them than herself.
