Chapter 198

Summer's POV The moment I saw Marina's expression,I had the sinking feeling I wouldn't want to hear what came next. Then Marina sighed. "His mother took a job at nightclub to try to cover the costs. One night she didn't come home. They found her body three days later—murdered by a Rouge who followed her after her shift." My heart clenched. "And his father?" "Died in a territory dispute years ago. Ryan lives with his grandmother now, but she's elderly and struggling." As we climbed the stairs to the third floor, I kept Aria and Thea close. This was perhaps not the best place to have brought them, but it was too late to send them back now. Marina knocked on the door, which was opened by a frail-looking elderly woman with deep lines etched into her face. "Mrs. Brooks," Marina greeted her. "I've brought some visitors who want to meet Ryan." The woman's eyes narrowed suspiciously, but she stepped aside to let us enter the sparse apartment. In the small living room sat a thin boy with hollow