Chapter 18 — How He Learned to Leave First

After Daisy was taken to her new family, something in Silas changed, and it changed in a direction that would take me the rest of that night to fully understand.

He began, deliberately, to wreck every placement he was sent to.

“I never hurt anybody,” he said quickly, urgently, as though that was the thing he most needed me to believe.

“I never broke anything or hit anyone or did anything like what’s probably in that file between the lines.