Hide and Seek

Today, more than fifteen years later, he first entered her father's home to check she wasn't inside. Thankfully, it appeared Leon Kyriakus had gone off to his medical practice already so Kaleb didn't have to interact with him. It wasn't as if Leon had anything against Kaleb. It was more that Kaleb didn't understand how to act with a man who was quickly developing a tendency to call him, “son”.

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One hand on the side of his face, she kissed him, and for that instant, the world didn't matter. The fall of Silence didn't matter. The fact that Kaleb was holding the PsyNet together through sheer strength of will and violent power didn't matter. All that mattered was that they were here, in the middle of a dream that belonged to the girl she'd once been—a dream held safe by the boy become a man who was her heartbeat and her forever.