Chapter 2
“I was born into a life no different to that of most other people. I went to school. Didn’t much care for the things they taught me, but still I went because my parents told me I had to. Just as they’d been told they had to. I left high school when I was fifteen. Best day of my life.”
“I got my first job—detailing cars in a second-hand car yard. It was boring. Beyond boring. It almost made me wish I was back at school. Almost. Anyway, one day I just couldn’t face turning up for work and so I didn’t. I left home and left my job. In fact, I left everything I knew. I had about sixty dollars in my pocket and a small bag with some clothes. My mother cried and begged me to stay. My father wasn’t at home.”
Alexander was strangely spellbound. Christian had been something of a rebel an
