Starcrossed (Starcrossed 1)

?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.