Let It Shine
“Part of him was scared of how angry he was at his father. Not of losing his temper with his dad, but of losing his respect for him.He’d driven home instead. As the steaming spray of the shower rinsed away the schmutz that’d been poured over him by those assholes at the diner, he remembered the way Sofie’s eyes had gone round with fear when the bottle landed at her feet, and the way they had been liquid heat just before he kissed her in the alleyway. When he thought of his father, of the way he’...d reacted to seeing him with Sofie, Ivan felt a deep shame descend upon him. It was the same shame that had haunted him since that day Sofie had protected and then lost her mother, as if his cowardice had brought down some wrath upon them all.That kind of shame was an albatross. He’d borne its weight for so long—becoming bigger, stronger, and harder to injure had lightened his load but not removed it.If he really thought about it, it was that shame that had driven him to the nonviolent resister meetings.MoreLess
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