Chapter 21
MY WHOLE BODY sagged the moment the door shut behind us. Talking to Madeline about the past had been harder than I’d expected. Add to that my disappointment that she couldn’t help us, and I was feeling like I’d been put through an emotional wringer.
Jordan ran up to us. “What did she say?”
“Not here,” Nikolas said. “We’ll talk outside.”
Rain was coming down in torrents when we left the building, and we made a mad dash for the vehicles. As soon as we settled into our SUV, the others looked at us expectantly. I sat back during the drive to the airport and let Nikolas tell them about our conversation with Madeline.
We were all subdued by the time we piled out of the vehicles at the airport hangar. Nikolas went to speak to the pilot, and I found a seat at the back of the small
