“Your uncle was right,” Anthony says with the same dangerous calm, “though not for the reason he thought, I suspect. Or that you did.” He chances a look at Gabriel, who appears strangely small where he sits on the bed, as though some part of him has collapsed inward. God only knows what brought all this up for him, and perhaps it doesn’t even matter, but Anthony would very much like to destroy any source of the pain now on display.
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