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Chapter 54 - Act 9

[Act 9 - Soren Chandler - Age 18]

Today was finally the day Soren was getting discharged from the hospital. His body had mostly healed and the remaining injuries can be cured at home. It added to the fact that Soren was complaining every hour and every minute that he wanted to go home.

One of his arms was still a little painful so Soren had to get a cast for the meantime.

Dimitri and Sophia had returned to Russia since there was a big event that would be held in the organization. They first settled the hospital bills for Soren and made sure that the young man could walk first before he could get out of the hospital.

Of course, as loving parents that they were, they left Mikhail with yet another credit card that both Allistair and Soren knew contained an endless pot of money he could use for whatever he liked.

It was always like that. Whenever Dimitri and Sophia visited them, it seemed like a tradition where they would give Mikhail a new credit card adding to the cards he already had before. The two brothers, too, got their own credit card presents but they roughly had two to three each. Compared to Mikhail who now had around more than ten of it and some weren't even used for a long time now.

Soren limped his way from the hospital exit to where the car was at whereas Mikhail was the one supporting him. Allistair went first to start the car so they could go home.

Once they reached the car, Soren got inside carefully with a few mumbles of how painful it was here and there. His head even hit the roof of the car which made him curse. Kael could only shake his head at it while Ali just quietly looked through the rearview mirror.

"I'm so tired..." Soren spoke as he leaned his head on the seat since Kael chose to sit on the passenger seat to give him more space.

"You should've thought about that when you decided to jump off the second floor," Allistair nagged him wherein he poked his tongue out and covered his ears with his pointer fingers.

"Blah, blah blah. I get it now, Ali," Soren mocked and Allistair frowned at him. This make Mikhail laugh lightly.

A few minutes into the drive, the three felt their stomachs grumble.

"We forgot to eat at the hospital," Kael pointed out which Allistair scoffed to. "The food tastes horrible there."

"I want burgers..." Soren mumbled as he could see a burger place right ahead of them. The two in front also looked at the stand and saw the same burger place Soren saw and then they immediately drove there since they were famished.

It was a local burger place that they had been to a few times but since it was quite far away from the mansion, they sometimes chose the nearer places than this one. Though it did leave a good memory to them because they liked the food here.

Once they arrived, the three immediately got out with Soren still complaining about his aching arm. Allistair was now the one supporting him while Mikhail got in first to order so it would be pretty quick.

"We haven't been here in so long, Ali," Soren spoke as Allistair pushed the doors open seeing that Soren's left arm was in a cast.

"Right. I kind of missed this place too. We used to go here every week when we were kids." The moment they got inside, Soren looked around the place and the nostalgia hit him hard. There were a few changes in the interior but it wasn't that much to the point where he couldn't recognize it anymore compared to what he remembered back then.

There were a few customers inside but the place was mostly empty too since it was just past lunch. He immediately went to the usual place they would go to which was by the large window on the corner.