He sucked in a breath and replied to her, taking a moment to think about her previous statement. "I hadn't thought of it like that before. All I knew was that every choice had been taken from me. They were always taken from me. Even getting dressed in the mornings growing up, my clothes were chosen. Food put in front of me, my friends - there's no doubt in my mind I would choose Theo one hundred times over, but our friendship was formed from our pureblood parents wanting their sons to have pureblood friends." 