Zoe was quiet for a long time. She thought back four months of how...happy Sydney had been in Palm Springs. Adrian had done that. It still felt...wrong to her but deep down, she just wanted her sister happy. Moroi may look like us but they are unnatural and evil. Never let them get close for the good of your soul... The old Alchemist rhetoric drifted through her mind.
"You make it sound like he's your soulmate or something. You deal in facts and I know you don't believe in the soulmate thing." She looked up at her sister, drawing her knees up to her chest and wrapping her arms around them. "At least you didn't." She looked back down and rested her chin on her knees.
"...does he make you happy?" That was what their mother and Carly would most likely care about. Maybe...maybe she should stop trying to be so much like their father and more like her mother... But she still loved their father even if he didn't love them the same...