Chapter 87

“I… I just took him far away and abandoned him. I didn’t know he was Druis’s son, I thought he was just some random child from the southern ridge so I… I’m sorry…”

“You…” Cole held his words back.

He left him and went to where Aria stood, waiting for them. He took her hands to help her outside but she stopped moving and made him turn.

“Did you do it?” She asked, voice almost whispering. “What the man was saying in there. Did you really do it?”

“What do you think?” He asked and she held his gaze; his worried gaze.

She inhaled slowly, then sighed. “I don’t know what to think.” She said plainly and took her hand back from him, heading towards the car they had come in.

He held the door for her just when she got to the car. She got in and he joined her in the back. Aren sat in the driver’s seat, starting the car.

The car drove on with a heavy silence in the car. Aria looked away from the road and turned her eyes to Cole. With some of his fingers