"I am asking you to do that! I need to keep you safe," Marcie said fiercely, tears pricking her eyes again. "It's for your own good!"
She was sitting ramrod straight, her jaw set tightly, staring straight ahead and focusing entirely on the voice on the other end of the phone. Without Tragos there, without Cy and Barak even though neither of them were any good, who did Kaden have? He was still a minor. So she was his guardian now, in her mind, and she had to be tough to make him listen.