Chapter 257 Wherever You Are

TESSARA

Callisa lifted her head to answer for me, her face blotchy with tears. "A man—" she hiccupped between words, the sound strangled by fear. "A man was going to take me, Mommy!"

My heart stopped. My arms tightened around her, and I immediately looked up, my eyes sweeping over the soot-stained faces of the survivors huddled nearby. My voice trembled with urgency, but I forced it out.

"Is th