Peter chewed on his lip while he thought of how to answer that and Aly looked like she rather wished she were anywhere else. Because that was quite the question.

"It was...different. Different with you, Svetlana. Because you did terrible things. But not in the same way. You were hurting, so you hurt. These people...they are not hurting. They are greedy and they can't see it. All they want is power. All you wanted, Svetlana, was love. And if I had taken five fucking seconds to think about it, I couldn't have saved us both an awful lot of bother..." But then there wouldn't be a Rasputina. And he loved her.