Chapter 13 — Where Did You Get a Silver Box?

Warden Mitchell crouched down slowly, bringing himself to the child’s eye level, and when he spoke to her his voice had gone soft in a way the guards had rarely heard from him.

“Chloe, sweetheart.

Can you tell me where you got a silver box?”

Chloe looked at him with her steady blue gaze, unafraid, and answered him as plainly and precisely as a child reciting something she had thought about very carefully.

“Uncle Richard gave me my old teddy bear,” she said.