Mafia’s Girlfriend
Not relief — something more complicated than relief.
"That's the part that makes it hard," I said. "If he were simply terrible it would be easier. If this were simply captivity — if there were no library, no midnight conversations, no—" I stopped. "It would be easier to hate it cleanly."
"Yes," Mara said. "It would."
"Instead it's—" I searched for the word.
"Human," she said.
I looked at her.
"It's human," she repeated. "Complicated and contradictory and impossible to file into a clean category. That's not a weakness in you, Lena. That's just what it is."
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