*Eli*

Brent and Sean have insisted on coming with me, and I’m glad about that. But I’m not glad that they seem to feel responsible for Kelly’s disappearance since they’d left before they knew the girls were secure. They’d been so excited to see whether the rickety old van would make it all the way back to Mark’s castle that they had just taken off driving and didn’t wait for the other car to drive off.

I have told them multiple times that it isn’t their fault, ...