Дженнифер Л. Арментраут - Аполлион

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Copyright © 2013 by Jennifer L. Armentrout

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Armentrout, Jennifer L. 1980

Apollyon: a novel / by Jennifer L. Armentrout – 1st ed.

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Summary:

Alex has always feared two things: losing herself in the Awakening and being placed on the Elixir. But love has always been stronger than Fate, and Aiden St. Delphi is willing to make war on the gods—and Alex herself—to bring her back.

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Cover design by K. Kaynak with artwork by Misha.

ISBN 978-1-937053-16-1 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-937053-17-8 (e-book)

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Table of Contents

Copyright

Title

The Covenant Series

About Elixir

Pronunciation Guide for Apollyon

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Acknowledgements

Apollyon

The Fourth Covenant Novel by

Jennifer L. Armentrout

SPENCER HILL PRESS

The Covenant Series

Daimon (novella)

Half-Blood

Pure

Deity

Elixir (novella)

Apollyon

Sentinel (Fall 2013)

Covenant novellas are available as free downloads in several formats at www.SpencerHillPress.com.

Also by Jennifer L. Armentrout

From Spencer Hill Press:

Cursed

Coming from Disney-Hyperion:

Don’t Look Back

From Entangled Publishing:

Obsidian (Book 1 in the Lux Series)

Onyx (Book 2 in the Lux Series)

Opal (Book 3 in the Lux Series)

Writing as J. Lynn:

Tempting the Best Man

Unchained

Coming from Spencer Hill Contemporary:

Frigid

To my friends who help me keep sane

while I’m playing in imaginary worlds .

About Elixir

Apollyon takes place after the events in Elixir , which tells the story from Aiden’s point of view. Apollyon returns to Alex’s point of view, and it will make sense from her perspective, but if you’d like to know what happened between Deity and Apollyon, Elixir is available as a free download from the Spencer Hill Press website. It can also be purchased as an e-book and in a trade paperback edition.

http://www.site.spencerhillpress.com/Elixir.html

Pronunciation Guide for Apollyon

Aether: EE-ther Agapi: ah-GAH-pee Akasha: ah-KAH-sha Apollyon: ah-POL-ee-on απόλυτη εξουσία: ah-POL-ee-tee EX-shoo-shee-ya αήττητο: EYE-tee-toe Chlamys: KLIM-is Daimon: DEE-mun Eíste pánta mou: EAST-ah PAN-da moo Hematoi: HEM-a-toy Iσχύς: ISH-heez Θάϱϱος: THA-roesh

CHAPTER 1

MY BLOOD ITCHED FOR A FIGHT. MUSCLES SCREAMED to engage. My thoughts were covered in a heady, amber haze of power. I was the Apollyon. I wielded control over the four elements, and the fifth and the most powerful— akasha . I fueled the God Killer. I was his power-up—the ace up his sleeve. I was the beginning and he was the end. And together, we were everything .

Yet, all I could do was pace back and forth. Caged and made helpless by the markings etched in the cement above me and by bars crafted by a god.

“Alex.”

Of course, I wasn’t alone. Oh no. My own personal hell was a party for two. Well, it was really a threesome… foursome of sorts. Sounded more fun than it was. Voices… there were so many voices in my head.

“Do you remember?”

I tipped my head to the right, feeling the muscles stretch and the bones crack. Then I repeated the movements to the left, my fingers moving—pinky, middle, pointer… over and over.

“Alex, I know you can hear me.”

I looked over my shoulder, my lip curling at what I saw. Boy, did I have a T-Rex-sized bone to pick with that pure-blood. Aiden St. Delphi stood on the other side of the bars. There, he was an immovable force. But without the protections from Hephaestus or Apollo between us, he would become an inconsequential nothing.

No. No. No .

My hand flew to the crystal rose on its own accord, feeling the smooth and delicate edges. He was everything.

Sharp pain sliced between my temples, and I snarled. Sending him a hateful look, I faced the bare cement wall. “You should have kept me on the Elixir.”

“I should have never put you on the Elixir,” he countered. “That wasn’t the way to get to you.”

I laughed coldly. “Oh, you got to me all right.”

There was a pause. “I know you’re still in there, Alex. Underneath that connection, you are still you. The woman I love.”