Chapter 22 : Willing and Able

“You think they killed her?” Dante asked me. “You don’t think it was just a car accident?”

I looked at him in surprise.

“You think it’s a coincidence that Layla died the next day after she left the house? Come on, Dante, don’t you see? The Golden Hive never intended for her to live," I pointed out. "With all the things that she’s seen, how could they? They have the resources to kill her and are cold-hearted enough to do it. They will never let any former escort have any sort of life outside of these walls. They killed off Sara because she knew too much.”

“But they didn’t kill my mother. They let her out and allowed her to live the rest of her life before she died,” Dante argued.

He did have a point there. I considered what he said for a minute, then an idea came to my mind.

“What if the society was okay with allowing your mom to live because they made sure your father could keep control of her? Didn’t you say that he had control of your mom's whole life?”