Chapter 13 - Three Years Later, the Little Girl Who Saved Me Stood Beneath the Oak Tree Wearing My Father’s WatchSofia was six now.
She still loved climbing trees.
She still asked too many questions.
And she still called me Uncle Alessandro.
One afternoon, she brought me my father's watch.
“It stopped.”
I examined it.
It hadn't stopped.
It had simply needed winding.
I smiled.
“Your grandfather's watch doesn't like being ignored.”
She laughed.
Then she asked:
“Are you still a bad man?”
I looked at the mansion.
At the guards.
At the city beyond.
“No.”
She smiled.
“Good.”
Then she hugged me.
I realized something.
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Power had once meant making people afraid.
Now it meant making sure children never had to be.
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