Chapter 28:
"The folder wasn't there," I say.
Kael doesn't move.
"The pantry was still standing. The flour was still on the shelf. Everything in that pantry was where it had been. Except the folder." My voice is flat and steady and I don't recognize it. "I thought maybe the firemen took it. I asked. They said no. I thought maybe it burned. But the flour didn't burn, so how did the folder burn?"
"It didn't," Kael says.
"It didn't."
"Somebody took it before the fire was set. Or while it was burning. Somebody who knew exactly where it was."
"She told me where it was." My hands are shaking. "She told me where it was, Kael. She told me like she knew. She told me like she was already planning for it."
"She was."
"She was planning for it and I didn't do anything." My voice cracks. "She t
