Chapter 0309

“I’m not letting you go anywhere.”

She stares at me with her wide chestnut eyes, trying to understand me. I spot the matches nearby with a small aerosol can.

“You started the fire, didn’t you?” I ask as the flames move from one charcoaled tree to the next.

“No,” she mutters, but her answer comes out full of desperation and sadness, as if she was a child being scolded over spilt milk.

“Your soul te