Chapter 48

• Miranda took a while to respond when I told her what happened with Max in the Underworld. She seemed to be processing it, her gaze fixed on the beach, on that white foam touching the white sand like a dance that never stopped repeating.
• "He impregnated you against your will," she exclaimed, outraged. She looked at me. "He did it, don't deny it!"
• I nodded, feeling that painful sense of betrayal as if it were the first day he did it.