CRIMINAL PASSION
Louise
“Si vis pacem, para bellum” is a Latin expression that, translated into Portuguese, means “if you want peace, prepare for war.”
My sister had it tattooed on her forearm when she turned eighteen. My father questioned what a rich and beautiful girl could possibly understand about wars, since the phrase seemed far too aggressive for someone so angelic as his firstborn. Iris never gave him a true answer. All she did was stretch her lips into a smile, revealing a perfect row of white teeth, pretending she could indeed be mistaken for naïve. “It’s just an interesting phrase, that’s all,” she said - daddy’s sweet little girl.
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