Locklands (The Founders Trilogy, #3)

by Robert Jackson Bennett

Because power and cruelty are easy, Sancia had said. What we’re making takes a shitload of work. So we must be doing the right thing.

He has not thought about the boy in some time. He actually finds himself trying hard not to think about the boy. In a world such as this, where so much hardship and danger awaits one’s child, what fool would let themselves go about loving one?