**Elena POV**
Adrian came out of his father's room looking like someone had reached inside him and torn something vital out, his face completely white and his eyes unfocused like he was seeing something the rest of us couldn't see, and when I tried to touch his arm he flinched away.
"Adrian?" I said quietly. "What did he tell you?"
He didn't answer, just walked past me and Charlotte and James and Maya and Lily and went to sit in one of the plastic chairs lined up against the wall, and he put his head in his hands and stayed like that for a long time while the rest of us exchanged worried looks.
Charlotte went to him and tried to get him to talk but he just shook his head and she eventually gave up and came back to where I was standing.
"What did Father say to him?" she asked me like I
