Chapter 57 Kellan “You believed them because they needed you to,” she said. “Because a boy who thinks his mother is dead doesn’t go looking for her. And I needed you not looking, Kellan. For a long time, I needed that very badly.”“Who is this,” Ryder said again, louder now, and I realized he’d moved close enough to hear part of it, and Sophia had too, her face pale in the dark, watching me the way you watch someone standing too close to a ledge.“Put it on speaker,” I said, my voice barely mine. “Everyone needs to hear this.”There was a pause on the line, a small huff of something that might have been amusement. “Bringing in an audience already. You always did like proving things in front of people. Fine. Go ahead.”I hit the button with a hand that wasn’t steady and set the phone down on the counter, and the voice filled the dark kitchen, low and even, carrying itself like it had all the time in the world.“I want to be clear before anyone panics,” she said. “Your men on the east
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