“I was thinking how much you keep hidden. How the hardest people I know have the biggest fucking hearts. My brother Brantley, for one. You should meet him. I get the feeling you’ll get along.” I pause, searching his eyes for any warnings that I should stop—you know, just so I can keep going… “I’m thinking that you care about Lilith a lot more than what you let on, and you hate that because of your parents’ history with Patience.”
