Secrets of the past make for the most monstrous of deceptions. Persephone There was clearly something about Sebastian’s past with Alastair that he wasn’t telling me. I knew about his turning. How Alastair made him into what he was, setting him on a course to kill his entire clan, including his family and his betrothed. Sebastian became a monster because of Alastair. He always claimed to be nothing less than that. Sebastian was a monster—that would never change. Sebastian I never questioned Alastair. Thought nothing less of what he had given my power, my immortality, a new life where I was invincible. I worshipped the ground he walked on for centuries. Until Persephone.