“I don’t know what else to do!” I cry out, throwing my hands up in the air. “You don’t listen to me.”
“You’re the one who’s not listening, Willow. Ariel will be fine. She’s been through worse. Shesurvived that and she’ll survive this, too.”
My eyes go wide. “I hardly even know her and I could barely watch it. How could you?”
That’s a lie. The truth is no. Not in the essential ways, at least, the deep-down ways.
But he’s not the only one who’s frustrated.
“Maybe I am.” He shrugs. “But it takes a hard heart to survive in the underworld. Ariel understandsthat. It’s why she’s lasted this long in the monster’s den.”
“He could have killed her.”
“Okay, and what if I didn’t stop him? What if he had killed her?” I press. “Would you have been ableto just stand by and watch that
