Page 2 (1/2)

I flinched as the voice peret Father’s voice out of ed to silence it, it would randoain

I was co to accept that it was a part of me

Just like I had long ago accepted that I would always refer to Marcus Parks as Father, despite sharing no blood with the s he’d done toany kind of father to me

Even the ed that

Father’s death autoo to vanquish frohts, but for a whole other set of reasons

I only knew hihn I wasn’t sure if that was his last name or first I shouldn’t have even known that uards talked to me

But Vaughn had done ht that had so the littleof the first room I’d been cast into after I’d been taken

So that had keptto open my eyes each day

“Aleks?”

Dante’s soft voice broke through the memories of the dark-haired, dark-eyed est time…

“Sorry,” I said “I’ll take the bus, Dante” I was proud of how firh my stomach was tied in knots