The whole year of silence suddenly looked different.

Elliot hadn’t forgotten me.

He’d been trying to uncover the truth while protecting himself from the father who had already taken his home away.

Chapter 8 — Helen

“Nina gave birth two days ago,” he went on. “She’s still in the hospital, and she isn’t doing well.

After she learned what her mother had been hiding, she didn’t trust Renee with the baby. She asked me to take Helen somewhere safe.”