Chapter 33 "The Sister's Secret"

• That evening, Ian found Emilia in the family's private library, curled up in one of the reading alcoves with a novel and the kind of peaceful expression that had become increasingly rare since she'd started understanding the true nature of their family's political activities.
• At seventeen, Emilia retained the kind of natural empathy and moral clarity that their parents had spent eighteen years systematically eliminating from Ian's psychological makeup. She was everything he wasn't—genuinely caring, emotionally authentic, instinctively protective of vulnerable people rather than exploitative of their weaknesses.
• She was also the one person whose opinion of him still mattered, though he'd never been able to explain why.