Once the car got on the road, the gentle motions of traveling sent Kai right to sleep and he didn't wake until Ian was nudging him awake.
"Kai wake up, we're at my place."
"Hmm?" Kai babbled, scrubbing at his pasty eyes and blinked hard several times trying to clear his vision.
They were in the city and it was night already. The building the car pulled in front of was all glass and stainless steel. A man in a uniform-type red coat stepped up to the back door and opened it.
"Good evening, Mr. Brooks. Welcome back home."
Ian gave Kai a small nudge. "This is where I live. Mr. Asher will take care of us. He's one in a million, actually.”
Kai looked back at Ian and then to the man.
Mr. Asher was a kindly looking man. He was older, with a deeply lined face and bushy eyebrows. The hair at
