Sienna’s POV
Claire and I sneaked back inside before we could be spotted. By now, Ian, who must have heard the opening and closing of the door, was hurrying down the stairs.
“Are you out of your minds? What were you doing outside?” Ian demanded.
“We were watching a traitor,” Claire snapped.
Claire, it seemed had already made up her mind about what my mother was doing out there talking to a rogue, but I wasn’t so easily convinced, especially after the things Ruth had said to me tonight. She had tried to connect with me in a way only a mother could. I didn’t fully believe her, but I wanted to.
Could she have meant those things, if she was secretly planning to betray us? Why help us escape at all, if she only meant to get us right back into trouble?
“We need to talk to her,” I said. “I’
