“They wouldn’t have fit in here!

Sloan isn’t like us!”

Chapter 14 — Castles Tomorrow

No one answered him.

His mother had already turned her back on him entirely.

Marguerite crossed the room, walked straight past her stammering son as though he had ceased to exist, and lowered herself down onto her knees on the floor in front of Piper and Callum.

The tears were running freely down her face now, and she made no attempt to hide them.

“I am so sorry,” she said to them, her voice breaking apart.