God damn it, I’m putting my foot down. You invoked droit du seigneur: well, I am exercising it. You asked for my protection, so you are mine to look after, and I am taking no more nonsense from you, Luke Doomsday.” Luke’s lips parted. “Uh…how?” “Last night, for one thing. ‘This won’t change anything’, indeed.” “It didn’t. Did it?” “No,” Rufus said. “Because I loved you before, and I wanted you before. But also yes, because you told me the truth. I think you’ve been telling the truth all along, even when you were trying not to.”
