We found Charlotte in the fetal position on the bottom floor of the abandoned warehouse. It wasn’t only the fact that he led us straight to her, but that she seemed mostly unharmed. A little roughed up but nothing like what could have happened to her.

I refreshed my phone seven times on the way over and on the way back to our house. Had the guards missed something? Were the Capellos watching us? Were they preparing to attack our house?

“Where is Ava?” Charlotte asked from ...