Chapter 3
Manning couldn’t sleep. The day’s events spun in his head, and he couldn’t make sense of them. Why would Diamond risk being seen to meet Hush? He’d kept hidden for a long time, managed to slip under their radar, but he exposed himself by going into the forest to chain Hush to a tree. Why?
What was so special about Hush?
They shouldn’t have let him go. Sure they didn’t have anything to keep him on, but maybe they should’ve taken him to the hospital instead of putting him out on the streets. He didn’t want to think about what could’ve happened to him. A man in a dress might be safe during the day, but to cross the city at night? And it wasn’t just the dress. Hush looked like a woman at a first glance—his long hair, his height. He couldn’t be more than five-four, five-five at the
