Chapter 46
So you went into the basement?
Grayson nodded as if answering a hidden question.
“Well, it’s less boring than being alone.”
Dane was silent again. Behind him, his colleagues were waiting after preparing to leave, as if lost in some complicated thought. Dane had noticed this a long time ago, but he didn’t look back. There was still a question left.
“Why can’t I leave?”
When asked why he didn’t bring the child out in the first place and instead went in, Grayson answered without hesitation this time.
“It’ll just mean I’ll get punished again, and it’ll just make the time longer.”
Then he frowned and shrugged.
“I could have held out a little longer, but you took Santiano away, so I stayed instead. I had to tell him that Santiano didn’t go there of his own volition. I’m a witness.”
Dane was silent again. He looked at Grayson with a complicated gaze that he couldn’t understand, and after a few seconds, he opened his mouth.
“So, what you did is honorable?”
“I was just trying to help.”