!!! *** WARNING! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS MATERIALS THAT SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTRESSING! SUCH AS TALK OF MURDER, DRUGGING, AND KIDNAPPING! READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED! *** !!! ****************************************************** Pierce's P.O.V. *************************************************** "Neil is alive. In a coma." I can't believe what I'm hearing. Neil's... alive? In a coma, but alive? I never... I didn't... He's been alive this whole time? "You... lied... to keep me complacent," I mumbled, realizing why I never knew the truth. Dad nodded. "I really thought you had killed him at first," he said. "Right after Gianna started to clean your hands, Hal burst in to get me. I left with him and that was when he told me that Neil was telling the truth about being an Akselsen. O

