I walked out of the hospital. Dean showed up behind me when I stopped to take some deep breaths.
“Hey, what’s wrong? What happened?” he asked.
“No one will listen to me. I don’t want them to continue searching for him. The more people that get close to finding him, the more people are going to get hurt. Why don’t you guys just let him take me? Your lives would be much easier,” I said, and he wrapped me in his arms and tried to calm me down.
“What has changed, Ivy? You didn’t mind them investigating before,” he said.
“He doesn’t want to hurt people; it just happens that way. He told me himself, and then Dad confirmed it. It’s only when people get in his way of getting to me. If we let him be, and I go with him willingly, no one else will get hurt,” I explained.
“So, you would rather
