I’m not here looking for—” I said. “But how can I ever know that, Aza? How will I ever know? With anyone? Did you give it to them yet?”
No, we won’t. Daisy wants to, but I won’t let her. I promise.”
“I can’t know that,” he said. “I keep trying to forget it, but I can’t.”
“I don’t want the reward,” I said, but even I didn’t know if I meant it.
“Being vulnerable is asking to get used.” “That’s true for anybody, though,” I said.
“It’s not even important. It’s just a picture. It doesn’t say anything about where he is.”
It gives them a time and a place. You’re right, though. They won’t find him.
But they will ask me why I didn’t turn over that picture. And they’ll never believe me, because I don’t have a good reason.
It’s just that I don’t want to deal with kids at school while he’s on trial. I don’t want Noah to have to deal with that.
I want... for everything to be like it was.
And him gone is closer to that than him in jail. The truth is, he didn’t tell me he was leaving.
But if he had, I wouldn’t have stopped him.”
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