“You think I’m not used to people looking at me like I’m not worth the dirt on the bottom of their shoes? I know what the people in this town think of me, of where I came from. The mistakes I’ve made. I know. And I’ll take it times a million if it gives me Fal and a home for my sisters. But I will never let them say a damn word to your sister. Not once. And that’s a goddamned oath.”
