Andre babbled something and buried his snout in my neck, pressing his face into the thick fur of my chin and throat. Sasha did not understand anything; she cried because the others of us were crying.
What other way out did I have? To utter more false promises?
“I’m sorry I didn’t tell your mother the truth! You, your sister, your mother, all of you are innocent, this happened because of me, because I did nothing to stop it in time. I’m sorry for having run away! I decided that you and your sister had to be saved, and I could do nothing for your mother! I would give even the last drop of my blood to change everything that has happened, I swear it by you, who are the most sacred thing I have!”
The march went on inside me, flowing with the tears. It was long.
And in the end, all that rema
