?You?re lucky that?s all I?m doing. Now go home,? he growled, and
grabbed her arm again.
?Careful, Luke,? Hector warned, but Lucas just smiled.
?She can?t control it yet,? he replied.
?Can?t control what?? Helen choked out furiously, her patience
pushed past the limit.
?Not here. Not now,? said Jason in a low, clipped voice. Lucas
nodded in agreement and started pulling Helen toward the door.
Helen ripped her arm out of Lucas?s grasp again. Undeterred, he
just grabbed her by the hand and held it hard. Helen had two
choices. She could put up a fight in front of the entire store, or she
could go quietly holding the hand of the most despicable boy in the
free world. She was so frustrated she could feel a repressed scream
squeezing h
er lungs shut, but she had no choice.
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Lucas frog-marched her past a chestnut-haired beauty that Helen
guessed was the other cousin, Ariadne. She tried to smile at Helen
compassionately even though she was clearly just as inflamed by
the Furies as everyone else was. For a second, Helen considered
smiling back, but she didn?t possess Ariadne?s self-control. She was
too angry to manage it. Fleetingly, she thought that Ariadne had to
be the nicest person in the world if she could attempt to be kind in
that moment.
?Don?t even look at my sister,? Lucas growled through gritted
teeth, jerking brutally on Helen?s hand as they walked past tiny
Cassandra. Cassandra opened her mouth to say something to her
brother and quickly shut it, turning away.
?I have no food in the house. What am I supposed to do for dinner??
Helen growled through her closed-off throat.