Chapter 37 The Brutal Realization

• No one looked at her. Not Bryan, not the others. Not even Darren.
• He stood back, arms crossed, his face carved in shadow, watching. For the first time, Nina saw what he really was. Not just a protector. Not just a man with quiet strength. He was one of them, a monster who could watch another human beaten bloody without blinking. No wonder he kept warning her.
• Was she really sure she knew this man? This heartless monster? She thought. She wanted to hate him in that moment, to see him as the monster Horace had made him, but she couldn’t.