CHAPTER THREE
WHEN KAYLEB DIDN’T drop dead by sundown, he began to breathe easier. And as night turned back into morning, he let himself hope that the impossible had happened and that he’d been spared.
Though his feet tapped on the tile of the kitchen, begging for one of his long walks, he didn’t dare leave the apartment. Not yet. Krayter and Penny kept shooting him looks, somewhere between hope and pity and disbelief. And except for the moments he’d stolen away in the bathroom, neither of them had left him alone.
He loved his brother and liked Penny, but if this babysitting went on for too long it wasn’t going to end happily for any of them. Before Krayter came to him with the crazy plan to leave Jaaxis and find Earth, Kayleb had lived alone, despite the large apartment that housed the
