Amelia pulled the phone from her ear, the echo of her adopted mom's accusations still ringing in her mind. Her fingers tightened around the device as she tried to process what she had just heard. Sophie in the hospital, her stomach being pumped, and somehow every bit of it was being laid at her feet. The kitchen spun with shock and disbelief. The walls felt too close, the silence way too loud. Nothing about this made sense, yet at the same time it felt like something the world had been waiting to accuse her of.
Jacob pressed his thin lips together, his knuckles white around the handle of his cane."I am calling in some favors," he said, his tone clipped and cold. "We will find out where they took her."
