EMBER’S POV
Knox looks back down at me.
“Every piece of evidence points to Marjorie. Every testimony mentions accounts of her. Did you ask her where she had been last night? Ember, there’s hard proof of her exit from the cells. There’s proof of the tampering of her garden. There’s proof the guard’s keys are missing. Accepting this to be Marjorie makes it clean. And f**k, it hurts, but I’ll get her the best lawyer across the North. She’ll plead insanity, and her late mother’s medical history makes it completely plausible. I know the woman I grew up with would never willingly harm those girls. I know, and I trust that that version of her has been twisted by the same madness that took her mother. We do this, and we put an end to a political disaster.”
“Are you listening to yourself?” I whi
