Katarina is someone who is very honest with her feelings. She would never do something to hurt Azief.
Because, she knows enough of what love is when it is distorted. She knows how her father distorts love.
And so, she vowed to herself that she would never be like that. She is not the statistic. She would be the exception
Those who were abused usually become abuser themselves. They were gas lighted. So, they gas lighted other people
They were victims. So, they victimized other people. That is the statistics. She wanted to be the exception
In that way, she could repay her brother. Boris, had been her shield for almost all of her life. He bears the beatings and the scolding, all for her.
And that is why, even if the whole world condemns her brother, she could not and she would not.
And when she first fell in love, she promised herself that she would never be like her father. She would fight for it.