We needed to end it all. We needed to get Xavier and end everything. I wouldn’t stay cowed under his threats forever. I couldn’t. I refused. He had threatened my brother. The one thing I’d feared, he’d made a reality. I couldn’t let him roam free while the threat to my brother’s life stood. He gave me two days? Good. I would put those two days to good use. I would protect Lincoln. He was turning fourteen soon which meant that he would soon go through his first transformation. His life was literally just beginning. I wouldn’t let it end before it began.

“But how exactly do you propose we...