All Chapters of The Devil’s Boy: Chapter 61 - Chapter 64

The car kept climbing. The engine's smooth purr was the only sound besides the ragged rattle of Luca’s own breathing.“H-how?” Luca finally managed, his voice sounding small and far away in the insulated cabin. He stared at Kain, who still looked straight ahead, effortlessly navigating the winding, deserted mountain road. “T-that was a l-long t-t-time ago. N-no one knew that. N-not even the p-p-people who found m-me.”Kain’s black eyes flickered to him, carrying a spark of annoyance at the interruption, quickly suppressed by a calm smile. “The night your brother abandoned you? It was a cold night, wasn’t it? The water freezes the air, and you shivered long after they wrapped you up. They thought it was shock. I knew it was the internal dread of the cold.”Luca felt a chill that had nothing to do with the altitude. He gripped the seatbelt. “D-d-did you… d-d-do you know my f-f-family?”Kain laughed, a soft, dry sound that brought the air conditioning down another ten degrees. “I knew wh

The sudden, brutal cold of the glass against Luca’s back was the only thing that kept him from dissolving entirely. He didn’t drop the minuscule film strip; his fingers, stiff with shock, were fused around it, holding the truth so close it burned. He couldn’t look away from the yellowed image, the tiny, precise script that detailed the end of his world. J. Ruelle. The elegant, familiar flourish of the capital 'R' was his brother’s, absolutely, undeniably his. Not a forgery, his brother had signed his own death warrant.Luca slid down the window until he was sitting on the cold floor, knees drawn up to his chest, the vast, snow-covered mountains outside reflecting the blackness that had just settled inside his soul. He tried to think, to breathe, but his mind had become a useless, spinning void.He wasn’t murdered. The simple, devastating thought was the first to pierce the shock. Kain hadn't been a killer; he had been a facilitator. The Final Delivery wasn't an execution ordered by