Falling

“I tried. I’m sorry.”

“She’s not showing?” Mr. Ledger asked, sitting on Ariah’s bed, staring glassy-eyed at the spot where I told him I had last seen Sally.

“No. Sorry.”

He glanced up at the guards. “Have some food brought for the girl?”

Luca stood awkwardly in the corner of the room, his eyes blank as he stared at my bed. If he really was innocent, I wondered what he was thinking at that moment. Did he see her dead body?

I shook the thought from my head.

“Are you certain it’s the girl from the picture?” Mr.Ledger asked me, rubbing his jaw. As he sat there, he seemed average, and nothing like how I’d pictured Elijah’s alpha king dad would look or act like. He was just a father, desperate for answers of what happened to his baby girl.

He had shown me a few pictures of Sally on his phone to make sure it was really the girl I’d been seeing.

“Yes. Without a doubt.”