Chapter 17 Emily A cyclone of emotions picked me up and spun me in every direction as I listened to his story. I had known he was a killer, but to hear that he’d gone rogue and annihilated an entire battalion of enemy soldiers was entirely different. Unpredictable. Homicidal. At the same time, my heart broke for the excruciating guilt and anguish he must have felt at discovering his sister dead. My siblings meant the world to me, so if I’d been in his shoes, I wasn’t sure I wouldn’t have done the same thing. I worried every night when I went to sleep whether they were being taken care of properly. When I first decided to leave, I had to carefully consider whether my actions would be taken out on them. Whether they would be used to get back at me. My father was far from Father of the Year,
