Vanity killed his scheme.

I have thought about that a great deal, and I’ve decided it’s the most fitting thing about the whole business: a man that arrogant could never resist making his murder beautiful, and the beauty is exactly where I climbed out alive.

Chapter 13 — Whose Daughter I Am

“Your parents are safe, Mabel.” He said it first, before anything else, because he knew it was the only thing I needed to hear.

“We moved on the mountain the same time we moved on the boat.