Page 125 of Psycho Gods

“Here, let’s get you dressed,” Orion mouthed as he grabbed my undershirt and pulled it over my head.

Still reeling from my own strange behavior, I stood still and let him dress me. He zipped up my coat and brushed snow out of my hair.

“There,” he whispered. “Are you feeling warmer?”

I nodded stupidly.

He smiled down at me, and a new warmth prickled in my chest. “I took a nap in the heat,” I blurted out.

There was a long pause as they processed what I’d said.

A muscle in Malum’s jaw ticked, and he opened his mouth. I turned my head to the side to avoid his censure, but my eyes widened.

Rocks were scorched black miles down the mountainside and stopped inches from the valley.

Holy sun god.

Sadie. Jinx.

They’d almost been murdered because of my idiocy.

Emotion and energy burst through my veins, and I vibrated from the onslaught.

Malum said, “What do you—”

I didn’t catch the rest of his sentence because I darted down the side of the mountain, intent on getting back to camp.

Boots pounded against rocks as they sprinted after me.

Malum bellowed at the top of his lungs, “What the fuck do you mean? You took a nap?”

“I don’t know!” I yelled over my shoulder as I ran faster. “I got really tired.”

“Excuse me?” Malum’s voice was so deep that the hair on the back of my neck stood up. He didn’t like my answer.

Neither did I.

Scorpius swore. “You’re going to be the death of us.”

“I don’t know what came over me,” I shouted into the night as I kept running. “It was weird.”

“Do you think this is a joke?” Malum’s voice was closer. “Do you think all this is a bloody fucking lark? Do you know what’s at stake—I was really worried about you!”

I sprinted with all my might.

Pretended not to hear him.

Nothing was funny.

It was all falling apart around me.

Crumbling.

Memories of Orion chasing me down a marble corridor played in my mind as black boots slammed against icy rocks, and I slid forward.

My arms pumped.

I threw myself down the side of the mountain, half sliding, half sprinting as fast as I could with my heart hammering in my chest. I was going insane.