He decided what her hands would do.

He took away her ability to choose and left her holding the guilt for choices that were never really hers.” Amparo pressed her palms together.

“That doesn’t erase what she did to me.

I won’t pretend it does.

But I refuse to do to her the one thing I most hate having had done to me — I refuse to flatten her into a villain when the truth is more complicated, just because it would be simpler to hate her cleanly.

She did real harm.