She kept telling me to trust her, as if she doubted I did. Lord Crane would never perform tests on sickly patients. It was already a risk to begin with. It would be deadly and a waste of, and my mother was positive that it would buy us enough time. Too much depended on me, his only subject who had progressed this far without perishing. Ash and Karin and the two Shadow Hounds were going to go to Isaac and wait for us. Mom wouldn’t leave my sight. She’d help me escape my grandfather’s lab, with the help of Isaac and his team, and then we’d head straight to Isaac’s a few blocks away. The more the time ticked away, the more anxious I became. Who is he” Kiara suddenly asked. “Who?” The boy. You were thinking about him yesterday in the woods and this afternoon again. Who is he and why does

