"Are you really going to stand there and let Clara die in front of us?" I continued. "Decide it now. Because depending carefully on your answer, anything can happen. And I don't exclude taking my people straight to Callighan if he's the only one offering shelter and medical help."
"You—after everything I told you about him?!" Maribel's glare snapped back to me, outraged.
Shannon, still in the chair, looked between us with wide worried eyes, clearly torn and not knowing what to say.
"I care about my group," I replied simply, still looking at Maribel and the others, my voice like ice. "That comes first."
Silence fell in the hall like a dropped curtain.
