MY TABOO STEP DADDY
While I was testifying against him in court, while I was pulling a trigger and putting a bullet in his body, he was protecting the one person I loved most in the world.
The knowledge that I shot an angel and called him a devil makes the next wave of sobs come harder.
I pull Damon into a hug, and he's crying too, and he's telling me that he's so happy for me, that Yosef was an idiot for choosing Kori over this, over us, over the family that actually knows how to love.
I pull Amanda into the embrace too, and for a moment, we're all just holding each other—a broken family made of orphans and thieves and people who've learned how to love despite everything the world has done to try and stop us.