When I’m Gone, You Love
"Three years, Martin. Three years of the fishing town and the gifts and the owl at my window and the patience and the gentleness. Why? If my brother was just a name on a file and my father was just a loose end, what was I? Another project? Another game? Another painting for your disgusting collection?"
"Because you were interesting," he said.
I stared at him.
"I've met a lot of people in my line of work, Beatrice. Powerful men, desperate women, killers, victims, liars, saints. Most of them are predictable. They break along the same fault lines, crumble in the same ways, give up at the same pressure points." He leaned forward. "You didn't. Cedrick chained you, and you bit him. He stripped you
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