Cynthia Dion:"Maleeka! Listen to me," Atticus broke the hug and cradled her face in his hands. "That man could be lying; even if there's a slight chance that he's lying about the whole hypnotism thing, tell me how you would feel leaving your child with a man who, even for a minute, you know cares nothing about you or your child. Tell me." Atticus was trying to persuade her not to let Mr. Holt control her, but she was madly in love with this man and wasn’t ready to believe anybody else over him for life."I know he is telling the truth. I used to think maybe he was lying, but not anymore," she sounded confident enough, and that baffled my mind. There is no way a woman would forgive or want to believe a man who is this murderous."Maleeka! He can be----," Atticus believed me, so he wasn’t blindly accepting Maleeka's trust in Mr. Holt."Are you going to bring him home or not, Atticus? If he doesn’t come home, then either I will leave with him or I will le---ave you all," the way her voi
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