He covered his mouth with his hand and pushed down his swelling emotions. She was happy. When he swiped the video, a picture of her smiling with her friends stared back at him. Swipe. Her in a hair salon with a small woman behind her, beaming at the camera. Swipe. Rory sitting on the couch with her father. Swipe. Swipe. Swipe. He set the phone down, and the first tear fell. The number of times Caius cried in his life could be counted on one hand, but seeing her, living her life and happy, broke him. It was everything he wanted for her, and if she weren’t in danger, he would live his life in
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