Chapter One: Abandoned"Daddy, please," she mewls, curling her fingers at the hem of his shirt and giving him her best puppy dog eyes. Of her parents, her father is weaker to her tears and she plays that up by a million. She really, really doesn't want them to abandon her to the Facility.
"Now, sweetie, you know we're doing this for your own good. The world is a dangerous place for someone like you. Your mother and I can't be there to keep you safe forever," he says as if the money that the government is offering them to hand her over isn't the strongest factor in this decision. He pats her head in an almost absent-minded manner, like he's already imagining all the things they're going to be doing with the money.
She wonders if they brought her until she's eighteen-years-old just to wait
