I shake my head, refusing to believe it.
“Zoey would never think she belongs toanyone,”I insist. “She’s my best friend. I know her. And that’s notwho she is.”
“She’s different now,” Matt says quietly, and after having dated him for so long, I can tell he’s telling the truth. “She’s colder. More calculating. Aerix keeps her close, and he lets her make small decisions to give her the illusion of control. But the biggest change is in her eyes. She looks at him like he’s everything. Like he’s the answer to questions she didn’t know she had. Like she’d kill for him if he asked her to.”
“Like she has undying love for him,” I say slowly, thinking back to what Eros said about the golden arrow.
He’ll be the sun in your sky, the stars in your night, and the air in your lungs. You won’t care if you live, if you die, or if you break, as long as it means you can be near him. You won’t love anyone other than him. You won’t even love yourself.
“Something like that.” Matt shrugs, and the final part of what he said echoes through my mind again.
It can’t be true.
But I have to know.
“You said she’d kill for him,” I say carefully, barely believing what I’m going to ask next. “Is she the one who did it? The one who killed you?”
“No,” he says, a shadow crossing his eyes. “I was killed two days ago by Thanatos—the king of the Night Court.”
