Page 75 of Fastlander Fighter

“Ready?” Silver asked again.

Sloane inhaled deeply, her eyes on Captain, and then nodded.

“I think I was born ready for this.”

And then she waited for Silver to climb the stairs and go inside.

Captain nodded once, and on his shoulders, Ruger waved and grinned so big.

And it was good.

Life was good.

No matter what would come for them, she and Captain would tackle it together and make a life for her boy. For her. For him.

She’d moved here thinking her life was over, but she’d been wrong.

Her life was just beginning.

Epilogue

The kid was the coolest part of this whole Crew.

Wreck canted his head, watching the boy—Ruger—go from shifter to shifter, chattering happily. The boy was confident, with nary an ounce of shyness in his body.

Wreck’s lips were doing something strange, curving upward.

He forced his smile to stop.

He’d heard the boy collected cards. Wreck didn’t know why, but he’d brought his limited-edition, extremely rare personal card for Sloane’s shifter-initiation party.

He’d even signed it.

Wreck looked down at it. The collector card just had a picture of fire, and simply said Wreck Itall in a foil font that turned the color of flames if he turned the card slightly in the sunlight.

It didn’t have his height or weight or information about his shifter animal like the others did, but Damon had been the one to sanction this one being made. There was one in the entire world, and it was in his hand.

Wreck should leave.

This was stupid.

“He’s a cute kid,” Lucia murmured.

He’d sensed her there, so Wreck wasn’t startled that the seer was standing right behind him.

“Why don’t you show up in your visions?” he asked.

Lucia Novak didn’t answer him.

“If you know what will happen to this Crew, why don’t you show up in time and stop it?” he asked, turning slightly so he could see her out of his peripheral vision.

“Because I’m with child. I can’t Change. I can’t protect anyone.”

Wreck waited a couple of seconds and then returned his attention to the boy—Ruger.

“If he lives, he will grow up to be a monster,” she said.

“That’s a shame,” he said softly.

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