Avery and Ethan 1

[Five years ago, a day after Avery signs the contract]

Avery’s POV

The sky is bright, the air fresh, and the trees seem to dance with the warm breeze.

It feels like a normal day but nervousness wracks inside of me as I watch the man who gave me the contract to sign yesterday and the hospital’s director talk in hushed tones, their gazes moving in my direction from time to time.

I wonder what they are talking about. I couldn’t bear any more tests. The previous day had been particularly stressful for me. The man whose name I still don’t know had taken me from one section of the lab to another till I felt my bones ache just to test different things I didn’t care to notice.

I just needed to get through this like a dream.

A movement beside me catches my attention and I turn to see a buff man clad in a dark suit approach me.

“You should get in the car, ma’am. The sun is too bright.” He says and I notice the earpiece in his ears as he looks a