Once the commotion in the room died down, Zoe Sawyer carefully closed the door, her face grim as she spoke.
Behind her, Evan Keller and the others had seen the entire incident unfold through the camera Zoe Sawyer had tossed in.
Every single one of them looked grim.
The situation was even worse than they had imagined.
The good news: both children were unharmed, and their physical safety was, for the moment, guaranteed.
The bad news: someone was brainwashing them—or rather, slowly chipping away at their dependence on their parents.
Wallace Donovan was one thing; his own past had already led him to give up all hope in his parents.
But the girl, Linda, while living under immense pressure from her parents, had also felt their love. The whole affair she'd orchestrated was really just an attempt to get out of a few cram school classes.
Now, someone had suddenly told her that her parents knew she was missing but hadn't called the police or come to look for her.
