Chapter 21
“Here. Put this on.”
Sophia swiped her hands over her eyes and found Alistair standing in front of her, his overcoat opened for her.
She obediently put the coat on and it covered her down to her toes.
“A great man said,” he murmured, “‘What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.’”
“Nietzsche died insane, you know?” she replied, as she took the handkerchief he held out to her. “We have a tragic vein in our family. Felipe, Carolina, and I insisted that my parents come to Angra that evening, contrary to my father’s wish to arrive the next day. Felipe was driving the car when Renata died. And I…I must have done something very wrong to ensure Gabriel’s death.”
The laugh she let out chilled him. “Sophia…”
“We’re cursed.”
“There’s no such thing,” he murmured. “I know your pain,
