Chapter 69

• The moment I let go of the corpse, I knew what he was playing at. I was dead and they would find the body and think me gone. This was his aim and it also gave me hope that my parents are still alive, surely, he meant for them to find the body and think me dead. And it was most convincing, the replication, the jewelry, wow, smart.
• "Are my parents dead?" I asked as we both stood at the cliff looking down below at the fresh blood that oozed from the corpse.
• "Not yet."