Kallos (Kallos Series) - By Khelsey Jackson Page 0,50

I’m sorry, Kallos. I don’t know what came over me,” Ian says in a nervous voice. Kallos can feel his body coming closer, and she flinches. She hears him sigh. “Good night, Kallos.” Then she hears his hesitant footsteps moving away from her and then the door gently closes behind him.

She lets out the breath she was holding. Kallos feels like her heart is being torn out of her chest and stomped on. She feels Sean’s hand on her shoulder, and it makes her feel a little better.

“Babe, let me see your hand,” Sean whispers against her cheek. She had forgotten about her hand until then. It starts throbbing after he reminded her. She turns around and holds out her hand to him. “Do you want me to make it feel better?” Sean looks down at Kallos’ hand and his eyes widen, “Baby, you have third degree burns.” She looks down at her hands and is stunned. Her palm is completely black and the skin looks like its being peeled away from her tissue. She starts to cry because of the pain, which is almost unbearable.

Kallos can't believe that Ian is the reason for this. “Shhh… I’ll take care of it.” Sean cradles her hand with both of his, and she feels the coolness encompass her hand. Almost instantly the burning is gone, and in its place is tingling. He looks down and smiles. Then Sean brings her hand to his lips and kisses her palm. “There, Babe.” She looks down at her hand and it is almost perfect. Her palm is slightly pink in the center where it was the darkest.

“Thank you,” she notices that her voice is a little wobbly.

“I did bring your food up. Why don’t you eat then go to bed? I’m going to sleep on your futon. I’ll be here if you need me.” He leans down and kisses her gently on the lips. Sean moves past her and picks up the plate that he set down on her bedside table when he rushed in. He hands it to her, and she takes it, and realizes she is much hungrier than she realized. When she finishes her food, she lies down in her bed. Kallos turns away from Sean's eyes and closes hers. It doesn't take any time to fall asleep.

CHAPTER TWELVE

When Kallos gets to sleep, she thinks she might go back to Mount Olympics, but she has normal dreams. Not all of her dreams were good ones, though; most had to do with Ian and whatever is hiding inside of him just clawing to get out. Kallos doesn’t know if it’s the demon in him that is trying to get out, or the god. Whatever it is, she doesn’t like it. When she was trying to keep him away from Sean, he acted like he didn't see her. At one point, she thought Ian was going to go right through her to get Sean. He seemed to change when Sean was touching her. It wasn’t like he is doing it for pleasure; he is doing it to help her. She understood that Sean had never healed someone that way before and she was more or less his test dummy.

Kallos still doesn’t know how she feels about that, but it’s already done. Ian acted as if Sean was trying to kill her, and she knows Sean wouldn’t hurt her. She can feel herself falling in love with both of them, and it scares the crap out of her. She used to think Ian was the good boy, the one she could count on when she needed someone, but now, she is having second thoughts. Yes, he is a sweetheart, but last night she saw a different side of him. Sean is the same bad boy she thought he was, but she does see his sweet side coming out a lot more. She knows that he would stand up for her no matter what, and he proved that last night.

Aphrodite told Kallos that she was in love with Ares and Apollo, and for Kallos not to decide between the two boys yet. She said that their souls would always be connected, and that they would always feel her no matter what. Kallos's chest hurt to think of her life without either one of them.

Suddenly, Kallos notices that she only has a few minutes before she needs to get up. Crap, Sean is lying about ten feet from her. She never looks good in the morning, and