“I swear I won’t abandon either of you. Nicu will have my adoration every morning. He will have me at his bedside every night. I will sit with him. I will listen to his stories. I will tie ribbons through every corridor. I will hold his hand and bring him to the dais, so that he may see his father dominate the great hall. I won’t let anyone harm him. I’m his. I’m yours. You come first because you’re my family, as are my mother and my father and Eliot. You are my family.”
