"Do you think I'll go back to being dead now?" Gwen asks.
Dakota looks at her with a defiant look on his face. He isn't drunk on Kool-Aid, for once."If Hades does that, he's going to have to face me."
She grins at his overprotectiveness, but the worry hasn't left her mind.
"But what if he does take me back?" Gwen's face drains of color as she imagines the consequences of going back to the brief amount of dark Underworld she had tasted.
He grasps her hand, clutching it tightly. "I won't let that happen."
She sadly smiles. "I know."