Demir I am an old fool who’s done nothing but mistakes in his long, long life. The one thing I did right was choosing to keep my son when I found him. But even with him I always felt a part of me was missing, a part only Geneva’s presence has ever been able to fill in. She’s the one who helps keep my shadow tame, I know it in my bones. Even before tonight, ever since that first night when her brother called me to help her, and I was assigned to keep her safe, it’s been nothing but silence from my birth enemy. Geneva is the one who completes me. The one who makes the voices disappear, who gives me strength and confidence and makes me realize I am more than the curse I was born with, more than a coward who spent all his years on this earth running. She makes me feel like I want to stay. For

