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I shouldn’t have said that. He doesn’t deserve to be deceived, even with the truth. But I see how hard he fights to keep himself in check, how deep he cares about the people who took him in and raised him as their own. I couldn’t have hoped for a better family for him than the Valentines with all their quirks and weird perception of moral and loyalty. So I mean what I say. Every word of it. I’d do even the impossible to protect him and them.
Dzhan’s little smile falters at my words though, as if he catches the hidden meaning behind them.
“W-what? Have you done something to keep me safe before?” He asks, making me freeze against him. His voice is suddenly careful, guarded.
I don’t want to lie to him. But how do I tell him that I helped them during the war that even from limbo I foug
