Chapter 67:
I looked at Kael.
"Silas wants the papers."
Kael nodded.
"The ones Elizabeth gave to the judge."
"The originals. The bank records. The photographs. The evidence. Everything."
"And if you give them to him?"
"He gives me Lily."
"And if you don't?"
"He kills her."
I sat down.
"We can't give him the papers."
Kael looked at me.
"What?"
"We can't give him the papers. They're the only thing that's going to put him in prison. If we give them to him, he's going to destroy them. And then he's going to walk free."
"Ella—"
"And then he's going to come back. He's going to come back and he's going to take Lily and he's going to take Hope and he's going to take everything."
"Ella—"
"We can't give him the papers."
Kael looked at the floor.
"So we let him kill her."
"No."
