The Sixty-Fourth Victim

ROWAN’S POV

A sound escapes him. Broken and startled, a small laugh that somehow makes it through the madness.

“You’re insane,” he says. “You want me to make the man who killed sixty-three people a hypothetical GODPARENT.”

“I want you to sit back down in that chair and hold me and let me anchor you while we figure out what the hell we do next. The godparent discussion, hypothetical or otherwise, c