“You left your child with a human who had no idea what would happen to her when her Mori emerged,” Nikolas said in a hard voice.
“I could sense no Mori in her,” Madeline replied defensively. “I thought she was human like her father.” She looked at me. “I came back sometimes to see how the two of you were doing, but neither of you knew it. If I’d seen a sign that you were different, I would have gone to your father. You looked happy together.”
“We were happy. Until he was killed.”
Pain flashed in her eyes. “I went to him and warned him he might be in danger. He didn’t believe me. The last thing I wanted was for him to get hurt.”
Bitterness welled in me. “He’d didn’t get hurt, Madeline. He got murdered.”
She flinched and got up to walk over to the window where rain was running down in r
