Her face went blank.
“Me?”
Daniel’s eyes filled.
“That was when I decided.”
“I could not risk all six children.”
“I told Rebecca nothing because she would never agree.”
He knew me.
He was right.
I would never have agreed.
He continued.
“Dean arranged the route.”
“He found the cabin.”
“He has the documents.”
“If we make it there, we disappear.”
Sophie was sobbing now.
I felt like I had stopped existing.
Then Daniel said something worse.
“I am only taking the boys.”
I stared.
“Why?”
Even though he could not answer me.
Then he did.
“Because the people looking for me know the boys’ names.”
“They don’t know the girls.”
“They have never seen Rebecca.”
“I can keep half the f
