Page 8 of The Masks and the Dancer (Their Obsession 2)

You are your father’s sons after all.

What I do know is that there are bigger forces at work here, bigger than your father’s hate for a heart filled with kindness, bigger than your need to exact revenge on a woman who had nothing to do with his death...

Understand this, there is as much truth in a legend as there is in a fairytale.

Break the cycle once and for all.

Let. Her. Live.

Nessa.

Konrad’s arm drops to his side, his fingers releasing the letter. I watch as it flutters to the ground, the sound of it hitting the wooden floor loud over the deadly silence that has descended around us.