“It’s hard,” I admit, my voice cracking from the overpowering adoration I feel right now, and Riall pulls me into his lap and runs his big hand down my hair. “I think about how horrible and fucked up everything has been, how unfair it all was and what it’s done to me. Then I look at you three and realize that there would have been no path to you if I hadn’t gone through that. I just wish the pain of it all didn’t still linger,”
