Neverseen, Chapter 79

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"I'd like to hear your plan," Grady told him. "Keefe knows far too much about Sophie for us to treat this lightly."

"He wouldn't hurt me," Sophie insisted.

Grady shook his head. "He already has."

———

Sophie tried to listen to the rest, but she kept staring at the bead in Keefe's necklace. He'd chosen a Panakes blossom, which Calla had said could heal anything.

As she stared longer at the intricate flower, she noticed tiny letters painted into one of the petals—the same petal that had hidden the crystal that saved her.

Trust me.

———

"All you have to do is trust us."

That was what Keefe was asking for too, along with the final words he'd said to her.

Please don't hate me.

The request had never felt more impossible. But Sophie decided in that moment that she was going to grant it. She may not understand what he was doing. But she couldn't hate Keefe.

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