Chapter Eleven

"I couldn't confirm it, but I have few doubts."

"No! It can’t be. Lillith would know if he'd been taken!"

"Has she... Dreamed or whatever it is she does since you've been here?"

I sank down onto the step beside him. "No."

Which meant it had been what? Close to three weeks without checking? How could we have gone so long without doing something to look for him?

"So there's a chance it's him," Aaron prodded.

I nodded, feeling like someone had reached in and yanked my heart from my chest. "Why do you think it’s him?"

"One of the things he had on him when he was caught was a silver locket with a picture of twin girls inside. I was told they were about thirteen years old, with white hair and purple eyes."

I wiped a stray tear from my cheek. "That's the last picture we had taken of us before..." Before I'd hacked my hair to my shoulders and did my best to forget who I was and what I could do. "The locket was Lills. She gave it to him fo