She sighs. “You’ve seen my back; you know the lengths Dmitri went tosave me from that monster I call a father. What would you have done in myplace?” I hate how obvious the answer seems when she puts it that way.“That is not to say that I wouldn’t do the exact same thing for you.”
“I would never need you to.”
She accepts that with a small nod. “Because you’re a better person thaneither Dmitri or me, Wren. Maybe you’re a better person than even yoursister and brother-in-law were.”
I stop the trembling in my jaw by biting down on my bottom lip. “It’s soweird. I feel like I’ve lost her all over again. It feels like —”
“You’ve lost the person you thought she was.”
My jaw goes slack when I realize that’s exactly what I’m feelin
