"Get dressed."
Aurelius didn't even look at her as he said it, his voice flat and empty as he pulled on his own clothes with practiced, deliberate movements. Every single bit of rage from earlier was gone, channeled into focus and doing something other than screaming or shaking as he buttoned his shirt with precise fingers while his jaw stayed set in that hard line that made him look carved from stone.
Sylvia watched Thalia like a predator watches wounded prey, her body positioned protectively beside Aurelius as if she needed to shield him from the monster in their midst, and her eyes burned with fury that promised violence if Thalia so much as breathed wrong.
Jordan stood off to the side with his arms crossed, his expression irritated but controlled. But Thalia couldn't bring herself t
