Twenty-One
I stayed locked in my room. Apollo tried to come see me, but I refused him every, single time. I would not see him until I spoke with Orion. Until I heard the other side. The Guillotines side. I hadn’t grown up in Coleum. I hadn’t known anything about it until recently. I couldn’t make my choices based off of my feelings for Apollo. If I saw him, so soon after learning about everything, I would cave.
I couldn’t cave.
There were actual lives at stake here. My mother’s history to think about. An entire life I hadn’t known she had.
There was a knock on my door. “Miss James?” it was a man’s voice, one of the guards. Gus, I thought.
I opened it. “If he wants to see me, the answer is still no.”
“It’s not about him,” he said, “we’ve been told to take you to the rendezvous p
