He’d been there all of ten minutes and he felt as if the walls were closing in on him. He was going to see his mother. And whatever she had to say to him, he wasn’t going to believe a word out of her mouth. “Will you please sit down?” Kari had said that to him four times now and every time, he did as she’d commanded. It had been a request the first time, a gentle reminder the second, and now it was just a snap. “You do know that she can’t hurt you any longer, right? That so long as we’re in the room with her, she’s going to be on the other side of some kind of barrier.” “No. No she won’t. They said that she’ll be in the room with us and a guard. They think…for some reason they think she might try to hurt us.” He looked around the room again. “She’s hurt me enough, and here I am letting her do it again.” “She won’t hurt you. I’ll tear her throat out if she tries.” Steele knew that she wasn’t kidding either.
