Chapter 268: Confessions and Questions – Part 4

~ ZARA ~

Emory frowned. "You didn't know? Zara, he'd been hunting them since the day you were hurt. He stopped ignoring them. They'd only found a few, but it was becoming very clear that he had the Arinel equivalent of a task force out—and they were killing anyone they could prove had connections. That's why I was so tense. I was certain I was next! He gave me so much attention I thought he had to be onto me. And I'm not like you. I can't go back there at will. So if he killed me there and I was useless to them here… shit. This is even worse than I thought."

"This makes no sense—you're saying David was eradicating them. But he kept you?" Then I remembered and gave a dry, humorless laugh. "Of course he kept you. I'm so stupid…" I shook my head, trying to deny the spear of pain slicing through me. "He kept me when he wasn't supposed to, of course he'd keep you too."

Emory was watching me like she wasn't quite sure what she was seeing.