Jessica Whitly had been just as relieved to take a break from Malcolm and his needs as she was fiercely invested in controlling Ainsley’s. There was no saving Malcolm, so there was no harm letting him hang around someone who was at least a good male role model. Ainsley, on the other hand… Ainsley could have the normal, proper life the rest of them had been denied.

Except that was a plan always doomed to fail. Her father is a serial killer too.

“If he hurt Gil like that and then threatened you… I would do it,” he whispered. “I’d do it. Of course I did it.”