Chapter 35 Sins Of The Father

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• The ship's engine rumbled beneath my feet as guards shoved Marcus and me into a cold storage room below deck. The metal walls sweated with condensation, and the air reeked of disinfectant and something else, something metallic and wrong that made my stomach turn violently.
• Eli lay motionless on a gurney in the corner, still connected to that terrible IV. His small chest rose and fell with shallow breaths. I lunged toward him, desperate to hold him, but rough hands yanked me back so hard I stumbled.