“Monster or no monster, you still deserve to have someone in your corner. It’s been a damn honor to be that person. I know you don’t see it. You’re too focused on the wrongs you’ve done, but you’ve come a long way since I first met that young man who’d unleashed his inner pain on the world. Something had to give, Hammond. No one can suffer and not crack under pressure. It was bound to happen sooner or later.”
