Chapter 158

He would look for me. I was sure of that. And I hoped to be ready to receive him.

Mikhail looked one last time toward the gray stone archway where Dad and the Academy staff had disappeared.

“I think we should stay with him,” he whispered.

“Stay if you want, I need to return to my family.”

I realized a little late that I shouldn’t have said that, especially in that way. My brother turned to look at me, although neither his face nor his smell conveyed anything to me. Two years later, the fact that I continued to make those types of distinctions struck a very sensitive chord with him; it was one of the things he would never forgive me for.

Deep down, he knew that when he had his own children he would understand my position.

“Besides, Mom must be waiting for us,” I added, as if to level the ground.

I retrieved my cell phone without batteries and plugged it into the dash charger. Afterwards, I left the Academy complex, gaining speed on the asphal