“She’s safe,” Adrian said with certainty. “And more than likely having the time of her life right now, but…there is no way to ever find her again, if that’s what you were hoping for.”
Renee stared at him with a strange, confused look on her face. The words coming out of his mouth were obviously English, but they might as well have been Swahili to her.
She couldn’t understand how he could say “she’s safe” and Claudia in the same breath, not when they both knew Ricardo would kill her without hesitation. The part about never seeing her again didn’t faze her so much; she made peace with that over eleven years ago.
“What does that even mean? How do you know that? What did you do?” She pushed.
He gave her a soft smile and began explaining everything she’d missed while she was asleep. He did
