Sacrificing himself for us? I could not fathom allowing such a thing to happen. Thorne was broken when his father said this and when he tried to argue his point, Killian shut him down and immediately walked away. His mind was made up.
Three and a half hours left.
But ours was not. There had to be some sort of loophole. Right?
Two hours had come and gone and still we had come up with nothing. Then another hour had come and gone and desperation began to settle in. Everyone began volunteering as tribute to help the others get back home, with each volunteer to sacrifice, there was a unanimous vote of disagreement.
By then, one hour left.
But we simply could not lose Killian; the man who was the father that most of us had never known in our past lives. Losing him-though I had not known h
