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"Angus! Are you safe? Have you found Mark yet?" Justmy brother's name made me want to cry "I miss you," I whispered, half as if I was afraid to admit it

"I miss you too, little love We have located your brother, and I' to atteain as soon as we're done"

I said nothing as a terrible dread washed over ht I felt like I knew it like I knew the sun would rise again to to die, and I was hopelessly and desperately afraid that it would be Angus' body lying lifeless on the ground at the end of this night's work

"Please be safe," was all I ive voice to ht," he said

It took ulfed as I was in anxiety for his safety

"What?" I was sure I'd misheard hi your brother Mark looks just like hi like a coe

"He said to say he's sorry, and that he loves you"

"Right," I said, still not certain I understood what he was telling me My father My actual father was alive and about to embark on a hter I said nothing, though, trying to absorb it all in my sleep drenched state

"I love you Rebecca No ht, I want you to know that I love you More than anything"

I started sobbing then It wasn't fair I loved this oing to lose hi as I did that he was one of the few people in this world who o anyway, because that's the kind of man he was

"Don't cry, h us I love you so much Please come back to me"

He didn't make the promise he couldn't knoould keep, so he toldWe spoke for a while, and then he said he had to get ready to go, and I told hioodbyes I pressed the screen to end the call, and burst into tears again I sat crying with es, until soht on in the room, and I looked up to see Julia framed in the doorway