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Chapter 129 No More Running

Author: Royal Jay
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-19 23:30:31

—ETHAN’S POV

I didn’t speak.

Not when the old floor groaned beneath our boots.

Not when Sophia pulled the boy tighter against her chest, like she could will his heart to keep beating.

Not when Marcus cracked the hatch open and that bitter, blood-soaked Vermont air came slicing in.

The boy—wrapped in one of my coats, body slack, head tucked into Sophia like he was born there—still hadn’t opened his eyes.

But he would.

And when he did, I’d have to face whatever was looking back.

Because it wouldn’t be a stranger.

And it wouldn’t be a son.

Not yet. Maybe not ever.

It would be a question I couldn’t answer.

And I’d have to pretend like I wasn’t terrified of what it might become.

“Get in,” I said, nodding toward the SUV Marcus had hotwired from a boarded-up farmhouse ten miles west.

Remote.

Empty.

A place no one cared about—perfect for men like us.

Sophia hesitated. Looked from the boy to me. “Where are we going?”

I slid the rifle into the backseat. Checked the GPS jammer again. Still hummi
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