Clasping my face in his hands, Arran looked deep in my eyes. “Now you listen to me, Eredine Willows. You did all you could to protect Kia. To get justice for her. Sometimes corruption wins, and it’s fucking awful, and I can’t even imagine the depth of your anger … but the very fact that you live each day treating everyone with patience and kindness and gentleness … I have never met anyone as strong or as good as you. And I won’t let you feel guilty for doing something I know, without even having known her, that your sister would have wanted you to do. You lived, Ery. You’re living. And maybe
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