ain't it grand

“Easy for you to say,” he spat. She was healthy, able, and would probably be having children next year (if not sooner). Kennedy, on the other hand, would never be considered good breeding material, so he would live out the rest of his days as a single man with a sour heart. There was no getting around it, unfortunately. There had been a glimmer of hope when he had seen her at first, but all that was now washed away.

“And I’ll do what I want. If you don’t like it, do something about it.” Kennedy was not going to do what somebody said just because they thought they were better than him.