#Chapter 215: Hear Them Out

Aria’s POV In our search for the children, we traveled along the roads to the park. There, I searched the kids’ favorite play areas: behind the slide, around the swings, near the seesaws and the jungle gym. William and Joe were nowhere to be found. Likewise, I saw no evidence that they had been here at all. “Anything?” I called out to Liam, who was searching the bathrooms. He clicked the light off as he came back outside. “No.” His grim expression mirrored my own. While we stood there silently in the dark, empty playground, Liam’s phone began to ring. Removing it from his pocket, we both looked down at the screen. Joanna. Disgust immediately rose in my gut. I hadn’t forgotten about Liam’s betrayal, though we had both agreed to put it on the backburner for now as we searched for the children. They were more important than our personal feelings. Yet even so, having her intrude on us here and now made a vicious sort of anger rise up within me – the kind of anger that ma