(Matthew's Point of View)
I didn't think it would get this bad.
It should have been simple. Follow their orders, leave, protect Esther, and move on. But this... this was different. Something that I couldn't handle anymore. The game I had entered was a monster…too big and too dangerous. And now I was stuck in it, and I was dragging her down with me.
The last beat of a drum still echoed in my head, like my father's words.
"Your family isn't as innocent as you think."
I couldn't stop looking at the envelope he was holding. The one he took out of his coat pocket. My heart raced as I watched him hold it up like a prize. What did he mean by that? What was inside that envelope? What kind of truth had he kept from me? From Esther?
And why was this going on now?
I turned away from him and cl
