Ellie says, halfway into our flight to Chicago. This is the first she’s spoken to me since we took off, but if I’m being honest, I haven’t tried to initiate any conversation, either. “I just can’t understand how you’d go along with Sadiq’s plan.” “I love you too, Ellie Bear. As for Sadiq, I just wanted to be honorable.” “When you were younger, I can understand you thinking that making the vow to him was honorable, but once he laid out his plan to you? You were really going to let him frame you for a fake murder? You’d have lost everything.” “He saved me, El. I really thought I was going to die that day. I could feel it…they weren’t going to stop.” “And I’m so thankful for that. But what he asked from you is too much. He saved your life, but then he asked you to give it back.” “I thought it was the right thing to do.” “Until you fell in love.” “Yeah.” “Why didn’t you stand up to her when Eric said those things to her in the cafeteria?”
