“You’re too close to the situation to see it. But sometimes, I think you might benefit more from going a little easier on Yulian when he screws up. Because, chances are, he’s off somewhere beating himself up about this s**t twice as hard as you ever would.”
I consider that for a moment, wondering if Lev has a point. I’ve never really seen that in my relationship with Yulian.
We’re brothers. So close in age that the idea that Yulian would replace our father with me seems strange.
“He just wants you to be happy,” Lev continues. “It’s why he got rid of her body in the first place. He didn’t want you to be implicated.”
“Yeah, that didn’t work out so well, did it?”
“Only because Marina was around to spread those rumors. She was obviously very active in death.”
I sneer, “Of course the b***
