3 BOOKS. The Lunas of vengeance
she said, with the infinite patience of someone who found all of this deeply funny and was not going to pretend otherwise.
I pressed both hands over my face. Hector made a sound beside me that I couldn't immediately categorise, and I lowered my hands to look at him, and what I found on his face completely dismantled whatever composure I had been attempting.
He was crying.
Not quietly, but genuinely, fully crying, tears running down his face, with a smile so wide it looked almost painful, and when he reached for me he pulled me into him with both arms and held on, and I could feel him laughing and crying simultaneously in the way that only happens when something is too large to come out as on