I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.' 'It was not I who was poisoning him,' I say. 'No, but you had stolen his heart and I was afraid you would rip it from his chest when you left.
Grave Mercy (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) - ISBN: 9780547822419