The Butcher (Fifth Republic, #1)
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“Trust is like glass. It takes time to heat and temper, to make it transparent for both parties to see through. But once it’s shattered, there are so many broken pieces on the floor that it’s impossible to put back together. A year may pass, and you’ll step into the kitchen barefoot for a glass of water and get a shard in your heel. And you’ll remember how it got there.”
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He was a man so hard but with such contradictory beauty, one who could speak the truth with a cruelty that hurt in a way that felt good.