Whatever retribution Faye Lockwood was now facing, she had brought it all upon herself. If she hadn't gone after her own brother, her family wouldn't have cut off her funds.
What worried Vera Warner now was Ron's return to Aethelgard. 'Could he have come specifically to take me away?'
"Then do you know where Ron is right now?"
Faye Lockwood shook her head. "I was a stowaway on the ship. I didn't dare let them know I was there, and then I slipped ashore unnoticed. I just wanted to find a way to survive."
Vera Warner held her ground. "If you want to survive, turning yourself in is your only option. Otherwise, you'll never understand what you did wrong."
With that, Vera Warner started to call the police, but Faye Lockwood grabbed her by the leg, weeping. "You said just now that if I told you all this, you'd let me go."
Vera Warner shrugged. "I'm not holding you. You're free to run. Of course, we'll have to see if you can actually make it out of this hospital."
