Matteo’s POV:
Matteo knows he’s not a good big brother.
He remembers wanting to be, once. He remembers it vaguely, with the same faint ridicule that he remembers his childish fantasy of being a superhero. They’re equally unrealistic possibilities for him, or maybe it’s just easier to think that— easier to think that he never had a chance to be one, that it was because of his circumstances, his position, his last name— than because of anything he’d done.
Matteo also knows he loves his little sister. He would die for her and kill for her without a moment’s hesitation. He would protect her with his last breath, would do his best to keep her untainted from the filth of their world.
Beyond that, though, he’s not sure what else to do with his love.
He thinks that somehow, over the year
