Dash’s POV
It’s been nearly thirty minutes since my parents Blinked out of the room, and I’m starting to think they aren’t coming back.
There was something concerning about the looks on their faces when they received the text message—something I can’t shake. They seemed so uninterested when I delivered them the news about Stella. I knew they knew, of course; it was the main reason they granted him immunity. But they didn’t really even seem to care that I knew.
“I think they’re in on it together,” I told them. “Payton’s kidnapping. I think you guys need to do something. No one else is.”
“If you know the truth about Stella,” Dad told me calmly, “then you know we can’t confront Seth. It would endanger her.”
And then they got the text message.
After a long, hard look that gave me goosebu
