For three years they called me a freak—and I stayed silent—until they touched my little sister in front of everyone, and the truth I buried finally came out and changed everything.

the dark forest, his back turned to the guardrail where I had just emerged from the smoke-filled cut. He was an advanced operative from the Third Generation batch, his posture relaxed but his body coiled for an explosive reaction at the slightest sound.

I closed the distance between us in a single, silent bound, my boots clearing the asphalt without continue reading …