Chapter 20“Whoa, hold on! If I knew where it was, I would own it already. But I don’t have any idea what stone you’re even talking about,” he stammered.
Madera gripped Hope by her matted hair and jerked her head back even farther. “Last chance. Do you value the information more than your own sibling’s life? Would you keep it for yourself at her expense? Your blood runs cold, but surely you came here to save her!”
Trembling, to the point of the skin tingling in his hands and feet, Dakota pulled the one card he had left. “How much family do you have back home?”
“Even if you did manage to escape me again, you’d never find them.”
He forced himself to shrug. “Individually? Probably not. But I take it you haven’t been watching the weather recently.” Dakota stepped closer to the attacker and
