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Our father was a good ht us restraint and a respect for the unsuspecting humanity that swirled around us But ht us to deal with the eventual self-hatred that we developed once we realised exactly ere capable of Marcus and Fergus had handled the whole situation a lot better than I had done They had approached their differences with a kind of fatalistic acceptance, and had used their individual talents to transforeneticist and electronics expert that they had becoht Initially I had fought my father, but his kindness and patience had defeated me Then I had taken on ether to repulseworld

I was fifty nine years old on the day that I sat at that table in our fauests, but I still looked as if I were twenty I had seen much of the world by then, and I had destroyed a fair bit of it In my defence, the elements I had reeted cri as much satisfaction froe that it needed to be done

And then I met Rebecca She had stuo and she had irrevocably changed lanced at her profile as she spoke to one of my brothers, and marvelled at her loveliness It was still very difficult for me to sit so close her; her scent enveloped me and drove me al to do withnear her was both ecstasy and agony for me

She had coped with the events of the past ten days rehteen years old, she had transformed into an iron metaboliser, and had been repeatedly abducted by Jack's ht him down, and he had died at the hands of his sister yesterday

I looked across the table at Julia She seeer someho that her brother was dead Even for a va relationship, and she was going to travel back to Russia with my brothers and her children, Oliver, Simon and Lucy They would be safe there for now