I would prefer you not take revenge on my friends.

[ Royce says, jaw working. ] Is that too much to ask? That you don't hurt the one person I'd die for, here? I don't see how you don't understand that for me, Alfie is like Renart, Navarro. I don't care what you do to other people - but you picked the one person I call home and did the one thing that scares me the most to him, and it broke something between us.

[ He drags in an unsteady breath. ] I don't want it to be broken forever, but I need you to understand that you were never going to be able to just punish Alfie. You punished me, and Emily, too. I thought he went home, Monty. I thought he was gone.