JUNEThe words barely left Ares’s mouth when the car lurched forward, Raphael slammed his foot onto the brake, the tires scraped against the road, and my body jerked forward against the seatbelt. In the passenger seat, my mother startled awake, one hand flying instinctively toward her stomach.“What happened?” She asked in apprehension. Raphael’s hands tightened around the steering wheel. “It’s an animal,” he said quickly. “I saw something cross the road and I didn’t want to hit it.”“Be careful, Raph,” I let out, my heart still hammering against my ribs. “Are you okay, Mom?”Janice blinked at me, still disoriented from sleep, her hair had fallen across one side of her face and she slowly pushed it back.“I’m fine,” she replied, her voice barely audible. I nodded but I wasn’t looking at her anymore, I was looking at Ares who was sitting quietly beside me, his eyes fixed on his hands.The words he had told me still felt strange in my head, he was barely thirteen or fourteen, he was
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