Chapter 13 YOU'RE STRONGER THAN I EXPECTED

They found him in a scorched military outpost beneath the old Velgrave detention grid.

Carl stepped in first.

His father was waiting - broad-shouldered, stern-faced, wearing a reinforced neural harness.

"Son," Commander Maddox said with a voice like granite.

"You don't get to call me that."

Maddox didn't flinch. "You came."

"I came to stop th