Letting Ben Know

Linda’s POV

I was still on the bed, feeling the heaviness sitting on my chest as I explained. But I was not done yet, I still had to tell my brother about the demands, and about we had to rush to the hospital, which was just a false alarm.

“Yes, it is a lot to unpack. William has been playing dead and said that the only reason he even came out of hiding was because of me. He thinks…he thinks that I can help him.”

“Help him do what?”

“He wants to take back his lifework from the Kingstons, he wants his program back.”

“Impossible,” Ben chuckled the word out as he adjusted his weight on the bed. “When those people find toys, they are like stubborn toddlers, they would never want to let it go.”

I nodded, knowing that this was very true. “But he has another way of taking it away from them though. You know that he was the one who started the program, the research was done by him, and when those monsters struck, they thought that it was all done, but the truth is that it’s not.”

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