Chapter 111

• Ava’s POV
• His words struck me harder than the freezing rain. For a moment, I could only stare, my mind reeling. How could he think this? This entire war was for them, for the ghosts of my family.
• "I'm doing this for my family," I said, my voice dropping to a whisper, thick with a pain I thought I had buried. I looked up at him, my vision blurred by the rain and my own unshed tears. "You promised me. Three months ago, you said you would help me. You said you would investigate everything!"