Chapter 127

• Six
• I had been in the shadows the whole time. I didn't want to, I wanted to leave at first, but then he spoke up. It would be the first words he had spoken to her since he was captured, and my feet were frozen to the spot. His words were sharp and cutting.
• And I hated that some of it stuck. Not just with me, but with her. The way she stood there, silent, the way her shoulders stiffened when he mentioned Nonna, I could see it in her eyes. His poison was working. And the guilt was back, it was a strange feeling, one that I thought I had gotten rid of.