Greeks could get to Troy to fight the Trojan War. Poor Orestes was
bound by the laws of justice to kill his mother, which he did, and
for that sin he got chased halfway across the earth by the Furies
until he was nearly insane. The irony was that he never had a
choice. Right from the start he was damned if he did and damned if
he didn?t.
After Helen got the tragedy straight, she still had no idea how it
could relate to her own circumstances. The Furies wanted her to
kill Lucas, that was clear, but if she did would they then chase her
for having committed murder? It seemed to her that the Furies had
no idea what justice was if they both demanded you commit
murder and then punished you for doing it. It was a vicious cycle
that didn?t seem to have any end, and Helen didn?t know how or
why it had all started. The Furies had simply appeared in her life
one day as if they?d moved to Nantucket with the Delos family.
She felt a shot of adrenaline rush into her bloodstream. Was it
possible that the Deloses were murderers? Something in her didn?t
quite buy it. Lucas had had several opportunities to kill her, but he
hadn?t. He?d even fought someone else to save her. Helen had no
doubt he wanted to kill her, but the fact remained that he?d never
even raised his hand to her. If he?d hurt her at all it was because he
had been defending himself from her abuse.
Helen switched off her computer and went downstairs to look for
her dad. When she couldn?t find him she went out to the car and
grabbed her cell phone off the passenger seat. Jerry had left her a
text saying that he was still at Kate?s. Helen looked at the time?it
was 3:00 p.m. What could he possibly still be doing? A fantastic,
although slightly nauseating, idea occurred to Helen.
It would make sense for the two of them to hook up, she
reasoned. They made each other laugh, they worked well together,