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Chapter 1

“I need to get back to where I was I don’t knohat happened, but whatever it is, ure it out When he does, I need to be in the same place where I started”

What feels like only o, I was in my father’s laboratory I had been on a class trip to the natural history museum where my father worked and where ical digs in Hungary I had slipped away fro extraordinary happened

My father had been working on a physics experi around his equipht surroundedturned inside out A round, staring up at the scruffy face of a caveman

He draggedat the entrance to what is clearly a cave nestled in a rock wall just a few feet above a valley floor hat is clearly a caveman in front of me

The tall, rough, and brutish young man tilts his head and narrows his eyes He stares at ain I pull back, and he straightens up to tower over me

Even with the beard, I can tell he’s not much older than I, but he’s built like Thor fro hair and beard would be frightening enough on their own, but co streak of what is clearly blood across his chest, he is positively terrifying

“I can’t stay here!” I yell at hiet back home!”

Home Where is home? To know that, I would have to knohere I am now, and I don’t have the faintest clue My stomach churns

“I realize you don’t understand htly cal here I’et where my dad can find me”

With a grunt, the huge, feral-haired guy pushes y body tomy jaw at the sa bitten a few o

I can smell the earth and sweat on his nearly naked body as he holds hiainst the thigh of my jeans is his dick, but I’m not about to look down to find out for sure I can’t speak or screaainst the rock atto stopup the most horrible possibilities

He grips hter andnot to let the tears pour from my eyes and down my face

Abruptly, he releases ht push toward the dark opening of a cave Without another option, I step through the narrow opening and glance behind ht there with e and into a dimly lit cave

It takes h to look around the small space, I see a fire and a pile of furs but little else I glance over at the beardedme closely with apprehension in his eyes

With a nearly inaudible grunt, he suddenlyI watch as he pulls the carcass of some animal off a spit and tears off pieces to shove in his mouth