"Please listen to me? Eli, trust me. Once I get Hopey out, we can run away together, okay?"

He never expected his parents would deceive him like this. Initially, when trying to bring Eliana home, he'd discussed it with his parents, and they seemed generous, telling him to bring her back. Who knew once they returned, they'd only want the child and reject the mother? They even prevented him from seeing Eliana. If Hope had refused to eat and kept crying for her mom, then gotten ...