Starcrossed (Starcrossed 1)

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,