Lyra Liam found and saved my father. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. It was so hard to believe that Liam would do something like that. There was only one way to confirm the truth. Was Jonathan’s version of the story correct? The only person who could answer that was unconscious. My father. If Liam had saved my father, it meant he wanted him alive despite the threats. So those doctors he sent in place of Leo would probably be doing their best to keep him that way. Alive. But if he hadn’t, if he really wanted him dead, then those doctors wouldn’t be caring for him. That was it. I stood up and left the playroom. Once again, two strange looking guards blocked my path as I approached the front door. I’d never seen them before. They were more thickly built than the usual packhou

