"I know that now but that wasn't the case when we first visited your restaurant." He paused "But listen, it doesn't excuse it. It doesn't make what happened to your sister okay."
"No it doesn't," Peggy said quietly. "It doesn't."
"For what it's worth," Dante continued, his tone shifting into something that was almost sincere beneath the sarcasm, "I'm sorry. Genuinely, sorry that your sister got caught in the crossfire of my brother's rage. She didn't deserve that. You didn't deserve to lose her the way you did." He tilted his head slightly. "I'd offer to go back in time and talk some sense into Killian, but time travel's not real and Killian doesn't listen to sense even in the present tense, so..."
Despite everything-the grief, the anger, the exhaustion-Peggy felt something crac
