Chapter 93

As we make our way to the door to the podium, Mary stops us. I look at her with so much anger and disappointment, I tell her, “please let us go. I want to avoid hurting you, but I will do whatever is necessary to protect us.”

“They threatened to kill all of us. I thought one life for hundreds would be acceptable. I'm so sorry.”

“You tied him up to a bed.”

“He wouldn't stop trying to escape. I had no other choice.”

“That's the thing, Mary, you had a choice, but you made the wrong one.”

I want to rip her head off, but before I have time to, I feel a little hand tugging on my side. “Lilly, I know grandma made a mistake, but she's not bad, she just made a bad choice.”

He's so innocent. I feel so bad knowing what is going to have to be done, and he's so little. Can he bear it? Will he forgive me for what I'm going to have to do? I don't want to take the chance of us being captured. It's time to kill them all.

“Jayden, some things are unforgiven when you do something so terrible.”

“Lilly, j