Adam returns with some water and helps his mom back to her room, Max bouncing behind him. I hear Adam say something about giving her another shot soon, and then he tells her to rest.
He returns to the living room, his hands shoved in his pockets. “Elena—”
“Your mom,” I interrupt. “She has cancer.”
“Yeah.” He stares at the floor. “That’s why I took the cure. But I was never working for Aether, I swear.”
“Then who recruited you to steal the cure?”
“It was Lynne. Aether never knew about it.”Lynne—so she was in on it the entire time. A memory floats to the surface, from in front of the lab when Lynne asked Adam, “Did you get it?” She wasn’t asking if we got evidence—she was asking if he got the cure.
“Why didn’t you tell me?” I ask, the question that’s been eating me up ever since I saw
