Prologue
I’VE HEARD THAT WHEN DESTINY COMES for you, there’s no escape.
You can fight, fake, and force yourself to believe whatever you want to believe, but fate always finds a way.
No matter if you’re enemies or strangers. No matter if you met in tragedy or sweet romance, once destiny binds you together, that’s it.
You’re no longer your own person; you’re part of a whole.
It doesn’t matter if the person you chose is crazy or angry or suicidal.
Once you’re bound, two hearts beat as one.
Their revenge becomes your revenge.
Their love binds with your love.
And their death...is your death.
Always.
Chapter One
TO GO FROM THE BEST KISS of my life to being asked to commit murder...
He had to be kidding, right?
I gawked at him.
His voice echoed over and over in my head.
“Kill me, kill me, kill me.”
My palm turned slippery around the knife, my lips still stinging from his, my heart a manic monster in my chest.
Raw panic rushed up my throat. “There’s no way I’m—”
“Do it.” His eyes held mine, narrowed and black. “Stab me. Right now.”
I backed up, wrenching my hand from his where he forced me to hold the knife. “You’re crazy.” Tears pricked my eyes. “Ican’t. I physicallycan’thurt you.”
“Once again, your lack of obedience is infuriating.”
“Myobedience?!” My temper got the better of me. “I don’t remember promising to obey you—”
“I told you not to fuck this up for me.” His eyes locked on the drones above. The drones watching everything. “And keep your voice down.”
“Let’s just go back inside—”
“It’s too late for that.” He reached for me. “Come here.”
“Get away from me.” I went to throw the knife into the bushes, but he rushed me, grabbed my shoulders where my rucksack hung, and hissed into my ear. “Youwilldo this for me because I can’t do it on my own. Ineedyou.”
Need you.
Need you.
Up until now, I’d hoarded those words.
