A year later, on Halloween, I went back home one last time. The old estate had new owners, and the Moretti nameplate had been taken down from the gate.My father and three brothers were still in prison. Eva had sent a letter from the convent.She had written pages, but only one line stuck with me."Isabella, I just wanted to know what it felt like to be chosen without anyone hesitating. Just once."I dropped the letter into the fire and watched the paper curl up bit by bit.What she'd been through as a child was real. So was her fear of being left behind again.But our lives mattered too. Just because she'd been abandoned once didn't give her the right to put anyone else through the same pain.Dante was released before they were. He never went back to the Alliance, and he never married.I'd heard he'd been helping children separated from their families by war find new homes, and had donated most of his savings to orphanages.Some people said he was trying to atone. Hearing that, I felt
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