Having Browne on the other side only contributed to the farce. The sense of unreality made it hard to focus. Odd thoughts kept flitting through his head. He remembered the weeping, hysterical mothers of men he’d arrested in the past and was at least glad that his mother had been spared that. He i...
Kieran knew that he was dreaming, knew the sorrow and rage he felt was not his own. Still he woke gasping and sobbing. “I’m trying,” he whispered. “I’m doing everything I can.” Knowing sleep would not come again, he lay awake in the dim light of morning, waiting for the solace of Alban’s company....