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Scowling, Gideon grabbed her hand and tugged her forward "Not enough of that" His steps were clipped, his boots thu into the onyx floor They snaked a corner and another roo throughout it, dusting and polishing the entire area

Around another corner, the hall tilted at a steep incline, and though his still-tired thighs hated the burn, he didn’t slow His growing anger gave hier, not jealousy He didn’t do jealousy

"So who aren’t you today?" He hadn’t asked yet, he realized But as always, once he wondered, he could think of nothing else Say Lord You had better say Lord

"Scarlet…Hyperion Yes, that has a nice ring to it"

Enough! At the top of the incline, Gideon stopped and spun When Scarlet slarabbed her by the shoulders and shook her She kept her gaze averted and…was that…was she… Sure enough Her lips were curling into a shter, the witch

Gideon released her, his anger draining Anger, not jealousy "You’re not begging for a spanking, you know that?"

"I--" Her words cut off as she gasped Once otten "That’s Mnemosyne My aunt"

Knee-mah-zee-knee Odd naaze Inside an opulent bedrooold-threaded marble, a slender blonde sat upon a ruffled pink bed Her hair curled innocently to the middle of her back In contrast, she wore a slinky black dress that was slit up both thighs

"No hurry, remember?" He wrapped his arm around Scarlet’s waist He hadn’t dared before She would have rebuked hio, and she was distracted now; he wasn’t above using either to his advantage He wanted to touch her All the damn time

"I have to talk to her, Gideon Please" Dark eyes flicked briefly up to hiht knoho messed with your mind Or how they did it, at the very least Gods, I can’t believe I didn’t think about asking her before"

It was the first ti, and he found, even as urgency raced through hi "Sure you can’t trust her?"

Frowning, Scarlet’s head canted to the side Her gaze swept past her aunt, past the room, to someplace he couldn’t reach "She was always kind toain, I think My memories of her are fuzzy"

Fuzzy That wasn’t like Scarlet She reering this ti?"

She couldn’t re your aunt"

"My who?"

He blinked down at her She couldn’t recall a conversation fro

His attention returned to her aunt The goddess of Memory, huh? Gideon had never dealt with the woman; she’d been locked up before his creation and he’d never heard any gossip about her Good or bad

Scarlet followed his gaze "Oh, look, Gideon! That’s erness practically buzzed frooddess of Memory Maybe she’ll be able to tell us how your memories were taken"

O-kay "Scar Don’t look at me"

Slowly her head turned, and her eyes clashed with his "What?"

"Who’s not in that room?"

She blinked in confusion, just as he had done a o "What roolass, so that she was once again looking inside the chaasped "Gideon! Do you knoho that is? She’s the goddess of Meht be able to tell us how someone screith your mind"

His stomach clenched Clearly, someone--Mnemosyne herself?--had screith Scarlet’sat her aunt, she couldn’t remember the woman

Could Mnemosyne have taken Gideon’s memories, as well?

There was only one way to find out…

Fury So ive me a minute to reason out the best way to approach her Okay? And stop watching your aunt, no matter what"