Owen I remove Amelia’s collar wordlessly from the hallway, hanging it just inside her room. My mind is racing, wondering if I played the situation wrong with Sebastian. I believe that he is not their leader. He has the confidence to lead, and his companions were clearly loyal to him, but he’s too passionate to lead the entire organization. Only a leader with a cooler head would have been able to infiltrate our borders as successfully as they have. I need to find my father to debrief him. An unusual thought occurs to me then: to make sure Diego is present for the debriefing, too. It’s such a foreign concept since I’ve gotten so used to keeping my half-brother at arm’s length. I’ve never been comfortable arming him with information because I don’t trust that he won’t use it to his own

