I’d always wondered what it would take to break Remo, and I realized I held the power to do it, to crush the cruelest, strongest man I knew in my hand, held it on the tip of my tongue. One word would shatter him. The knowledge filled me with unparalleled joy, not because I could break the man before me. No, because our children even without knowing them meant so much to him that their death would destroy him. “Oh, Angel, have they sent you to deliver the ultimate blow? Tell Dante he wins.” I shook my head. “No,” I said quietly, then fiercer, “No. I didn’t get rid of the babies even though
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