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Marvin looks at me again, and his gall...

It just makes me want to throw up.

How can he not see how selfish he is?

How?

"Are you going to let this man get away with talking to us like that?" Marvin demands.

"I think I should," I say unevenly, "since I don't think I can say something just as polite—-"

Marvin turns red with rage. "You ungrateful—-"

Giancarlo casually takes his gun out.

—-and my dad is forced to swallow the rest of his words.

"I cannot believe you are treating us like this," Gail throws at me.

Back at you, Mom.

Because I honestly can't believe how they're still capable of being so...vile.

"We raised you—-"

"But you never loved me," I whisper.

"And you think that man you married does?"

No.

Now that I know the truth about my brother and the blood debts he's asked of other people—-

I don't think Keiran ever loved me.

But even so.

"Keiran never made me feel I wasn't good enough for him. And that's why I fell in love with him. And why I'll always love him..."

And why I have to let him go...

Even if he chooses to come back to me.