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"What did he do?"

"He raped asped She pulled back and looked at Søren but found his face was blank, his eyes empty of emotion

"She had you"

"Yes I don’t know if it was intentional, raping ive him the son his wife couldn’t Deliberate or not, that’s what happened She had me and named me Søren, a family name My father named me Marcus after himself"

"That’s why you hate the name Marcus?"

"For many reasons My mother wanted to flee, and would have, except she loved Elizabeth like her own child and couldn’t leave her with my father, couldn’t leave her unprotected So we stayed in that house My father pretended I didn’t exist It was the only way to keep peace between hiirl who cared for her child I thinkin me And he did see it"

"See what?"

"I spoke my first words sixpiano at age two I h signs of high intelligence that I deserved to be acknowledged as his son I pleased hih that he paid the necessary bribes, had paperwork altered His wife becaht e What happened to your land when I was five, and my mother summarily disain, not for a long ti?"

"Thirteen years"

Eleanor’s eyes filled with tears at the sorrow in Søren’s voice

"Thirteen years …"

"School was difficult fordifferent about me My father had seen it I saw it"

"Sahat?"

"Like father like son, Eleanor I was … I a the gravest of pains"

He stopped speaking long enough for the words to sink into Eleanor She felt the into her body, into her blood, like soirl into another being She let thee her

"Go on"

"The boys at school, I scared theame could turn bloody if I lost control I pulled away, far into myself I learned to keep my distance I wanted to hurt them, but I didn’t want to hurt theht, when I was ten, the wolf broke the leash"