Kaius gave a sharp, incredulous breath, his expression caught somewhere between exasperation and disbelief. “There’s a good side?” he repeated, his voice laced with irony.
Raya shrugged, the ghost of a smirk playing at her lips. “We have a full year to figure out if we even want to be together once we leave this camp. Maybe we’ll realize that we don’t even like each other. Maybe you’ll decide you can’t stand me, or vice versa.”
Kaius’ expression darkened, his frown deepening. He hadn’t expected that. He had expected resistance, had braced himself for the possibility that she would fight against the bond. But this, this was something else entirely. She wasn’t rejecting him. But she wasn’t accepting him either.
It was a slow kind of torture. A purgatory that would drive him, and Zeus, com
