Love was something Khione had never known. Call her callous and cruel. Khione didn't care. She had a heart of ice. Maybe even literally. But sometimes, she wished she didn't.
She cared about her father. She even cared about her idiot brothers. But Khione did not love. She was supposed to have the ever-cold facade. That didn't mean Khione was a monster.
Khione stared into the face of the handsome demigod, Jason maybe, and thought how nice it would be to have a new toy for the collection. But when he took the hand of the Aphrodite-spawn, she felt a pang of some unknown emotion. She told them to separate. Nothing warm in the house of Boreas.
It wasn't that. She hated the girl for a reason. The reason was she loved Jason. She wasn't going to freeze him forever. She wanted to freeze Piper.
It was only fitting that her downfall should be the child of love. But Piper didn't know that she was part of a love triangle. Khione loved Jason. That was something so strange and repulsive and unfathomable. But she felt relief when he survived.
And he survived to kiss Piper. Khione had never been so alone. She knew why she had kept herself so closed off. It was better not to feel at all than to feel and be broken. Khione squared her shoulders, picked up her pride, and resolved never to love again.