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Prologue

Rerum, New Hampshire

10 years earlier……

“Just yank it the hell out!” Chris hissed quietly, throwing an anxious glance at his closed bedroom door

“I’ your catheter out,” Ephraim, his adopted father and one hell of a stubborn Pyte, said dryly “Madison is already going to kill me when she realizes that I took you and since I don’t feel like sleeping on the couch for eternity we’re not going to add pissing in her car to our list of fk ups tonight”

“Fine, but let’s get the hell out of here before someone catches us,” Chris said impatiently He wasn’t too worried about the catheter, at least not right now He’d find a way to ditch it before they reached the compound

There was no way he was letting his future , even if he did, besides this little setback was only temporary

He didn’t give a fk what the doctors said There was no way in hell he was spending the next hundred and eighty years strapped to a wheelchair Thanks to his Sentinel blood and the blood Eric gave him, his neck had healed, the bones in his shoulder had fused back together along with thewith the aid of a few surgeries

Noas just waiting on the daet back to work

“Are you sure you want to do this?” Ephraiently pulled Chris’ tee shirt up to reveal the stitches running froe

Chris shoved his shirt back down “It’s fine Now let’s go!”

Instead ofChris out of there, Ephraie of the hospital bed Grandh his short hair as he looked Chris over

“I don’t think that-“

“I’ his father off

Ephraiood idea

You just got out of the hospital yesterday I don’t think that we should ery, buddy,”

he said in the same fatherly tone he used with Chris’

little brother Joshua when he wanted to stay up late

He wasn’t a fking kid and he wasn’t staying here when his mate was less than two hundred miles away

Not fking happening He was going to Boston and he didn’t give a fk if he had to crawl the entire way Histo stop hi to her

“Look,” Ephrai at a loss at what to do, “why don’t I call Eric and have hiirls here so that we can see which one of the your ass back in the hospital for another surgery”

“Fuck that, I’ to sit up

Sharp pain had hi his stomach as a loud scream he couldn’t hold back escaped his clenched lips

“Chris? Chris!” Ephrai close to panic

Frustrated tears ran down his cheeks as he willed the feeling of fire and shards of glass tearing through his sto bad At the moment he was pretty sure it hurt h him