MILES POV
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Sending Elaine out of the house for the morning was the only option to be alone to get the house ready . I did not want to worry her when I start filling the rooms in the basement with cement and close the door off to the entrance .
I can’t let Otis find out what I have been doing . He would slice my head off , or even worse .
Don’t get me wrong , we are friends , but we haven’t spoken in five years . We made a pact to see each other every ten years because for us , we have a lot of lives to live and where normal humans have seventy to ninety years , we gave hundreds of thousands to go - unless we get killed .
“Miles !” Peyton’s voice rings through my ears and I focus on her feet padding against the floor before I camp out of my office and straight to her . I take in a br
