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One year ago
“He’s still missing,” Daddy said.
***
Six months ago
“There’s still nothing, honey,” Gabe’s deep, saddened voice said.
***
Three months ago
“Malachi was found,” Gabe said. But before I could get my hopes up, he dashed them right back
down. “Malachi is in bad shape. Very, very bad shape. And the location where he was found?
Everyone was dead. Everyone.”
Meaning, the hope that I’d had over the last year was for naught.
Malachi was found. But Luca was forever lost.
Prologue II
I got a dig bick.
-You read that wrong
Malachi
The dog tags were clutched in my hand.
Just as they’d been, apparently, when they found me.
“These are your personal effects,” the man that’d just handed me my discharge papers said.
“Normally they would’ve been sent to your parents, but they’ve been unable to be reached.”
Unable to be reached.
“So they’ve been in a lockbox,” he continued. “Any questions?”
Did I have any questions?Thousands of them.
Did I have any questions for him?No.
And just like that, I was left with my only personal effects to my name, and not one single spark of memory returned.
Not. One.
I had a wallet full of cash. Credit cards that were likely shut off due to my time missing, and a
pair of boots that no longer fit me.
“I’m glad to walk you out to the exit, then,” the nurse said.
I stood up, feeling things hurt on me that should never hurt a man of my age.
