whatever it takes
Part 1
chapter 2
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Excerpt:
âPercy, weâre still fighting for our lives. Yes, weâre not in the war anymore but we can barely make rent every month and Iâm still a nobody architect in the mortal world and you hate your job in the research lab and weâre starting to get monster attacks daily again and I justâŚI justâŚâshe stuttered. Tears were breaching in the front of her eyes. Her breathing was coming in short, quick pulses. The beginnings of a panic attack. Â
âWe saved the world twice. We went to Hell and survived. There isnât anything we canât get through together.â He looked at her with such earnest and conviction her heart stopped. His hands were now braced on her arms, gripping her with vigor. âI love you, okay? We can raise a child in our world, no matter how fucked up it is. If anyone can, itâs us. Plus, weâre already marriedâsaves us from more Olympic scandal and whatnot,â he threw her a wink.
She held his gaze for a little longer and finally nodded. Maybe not because she believed him, but because she wanted to believe him. The tears finally rolled out of her eyes as she blinked, tracking down cold trails in its wake. Percy pressed his lips to her forehead, and they stood there in the kitchen entwined like that for so long the sunlight had moved out of their apartment.
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