He hadn’t bothered putting any clothes on, and when he stretched the warm glow of the morning sun bathed his skin in warmth. Grabbing a glass and pouring some orange juice, he sat at the table and listened to the sounds around him. He could hear the slow and even breathing of Merrick and Landon in the next room, the rustle of a mouse in the forest behind the cabin, and the distant laughter coming from the camp surrounding him.His life had changed dramatically, and although he had loved his adoptive parents dearly, he now knew they kept the most important part of his life away from him. He had left everything behind him when he’d come on his quest. It wasn’t as if he had friends who would miss him anyway. Alex had always been somewhat of a recluse, his parents drilling into his brain that everyone was out to harm him and would trigger the beast within him.Now, looking back on it all, Alex knew he’d had blinders on. And the screen which had shielded his vision from the world would take more than a weekend in Forrest Haven to remove.
