"Shhh...it's fine, sweetheart...it's fine." [i]Irina tightly hugged the edgy-ass kid back - it did hurt her emotionally, seeing him like this.[/i] "But what matters, Alpha...is that we can grow from our actions, become better men and women - no matter how terrible we were long ago. The past is the past: what matters is what we do for the future. You and I...we've done bad things, yes. But we can become truly great people still.."