“I stopped needing to punish you a long time ago.

I’m doing it because a house that belonged to a twelve-year-old girl was stolen, and because my brother deserved to know who he is, and because my father spent the last years of his life making sure the truth would still be here after he wasn’t.

None of that is about you.

That’s the part you were never going to understand.” She opened her mouth, and for the first time in my memory nothing came out.

Chapter 16 — By Choice