Inside the room, silence returned once more. Jack rested his chin on one hand, looking at the ground, the wooden stick in his hand doodling occasionally. Howard couldn't help but ask again, "Jack, why do you think they kidnapped us?"
"I don't know."
"Do you think mum and daddy have reconciled?" Howard continued to ask.
Unexpectedly, Jack, who usually kept to himself, was answering Howard's questions almost diligently: "No."
"Why not?"
"Because we're in trouble."
Their sporadic conversation made Keira Leaf feel warm, her eyes red like a pair of rabbits.
The children's faces were smudged with grey and black, yet their pairs of eyes shone like stars in the night.
Before Keira could look at them more, suddenly the video was turned off, and Marilyn Carter's face appeared on the screen once again.
Keira clasped her hands tightly together, even though she was extremely eager to take another look at them, she knew very well that Marilyn would not agree.
