“There is a part of me that’s going to always wonder what we could have been, Messiah, but there is also a part of me that will always wonder who I could have been if Mizan had never come into my sister’s life. If my daddy and my mama and Raven were alive, and I had them. When I look at you now, I see him. I don’t know how I didn’t see him in you before. The anger issues, the quick temper. I’ve always been afraid of him, Messiah. I used to be extra good when he was home. Try to be extra nice to him so he wouldn’t get mad and blow up on my sister. He thought I liked him, because I used to
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