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The woman looked up, her eyes wide Kendrick watched as she realized that her father was dying He saw the exact e hit her
"No!" She reached for the phone, and a wrinkled hand stopped her
"Go to school live your drea more slowly now
"Daddy, please" she begged
"This isn't goodbye, not really Yourover you so you won't be alone Live every day to it's fullest so you have a lot to tell us e see each other again" He s I've ever done in life, girlie I'ht her face close to his and kissed her forehead When he sluone
"No!" The woman buried her face in her hands and wept
Darkness swept him away and carried him to another scene The beautiful woman looked paler now, and her teal-colored eyes were rimmed red and she stared down at a headstone
"I did it, Maraduated, and I' at the Duck In until I can find a perentle and kind, I know you'd have liked him, Daddy He's so easy to be around, I'm never ahen I'm with him It's nice to finally have a real friend" She knelt down and placed a bouquet of sunflowers on the double grave "Maybe it's ti a family, I'm thirty-six already It'd be nice to not be alone anymore" She stood and stepped back "I'll visitover ers and blew kisses to each name
When the darkness returned, Kendrick fought against the pulling tide of inky blackness He wanted to stay with her; he wanted to make sure she was okay When the shadows disappeared, his heart began to haan to take shape
"No," he whispered harshly
His younger brother Keelan lay broken, lifeless in the warrior's arrowled low He knew these an to collapse around him
"No! Why won't you let me see what happens to him? I can stop it if I know!" he screamed out
But, like every other tihtht in bed He looked around, thehi hard, he climbed out of bed and headed to the bathroom He turned on the water and haphazardly splashed his face, heedless of where the water ended up He wanted to wash away the ie of his baby brother's lifeless body
He looked up and stared at himself in the mirror
"Keelan, please be safe"
CHAPTER ONE
Kendrick watched as the large shifter pushed the small woman behind him From the name she had yelled, the man before him was apparently Aiden McKenzie, the Unit Commander