While trapped, they discovered a horrifying truth etched into the vault's walls. Their ancestors, the original Lord Montague and Lady Capulet, hadn't started the feud over honor. They had started it as a bet. A social experiment to see how long two bloodlines could be manipulated into hating each other for the profit of the "Council of Elders."
"We are just dogs in a pit, Juliet," Romeo said, cleaning a wound Juliet had given him an hour prior. Juliet looked at the data files. "We've spent twenty years trying to kill a reflection." For the first time, the hatred shifted. It didn't turn to love—it turned into a cold, unified rage directed upward.