Chapter Eleven
We arrived at a secure house in the mountains of Cedar Valley. It was several hundred miles away from the city and Cedar Retreat and it appeared that my grandfather had secured the location well. I assumed he knew about my father's work and he prepared himself for any government tracking.
We pushed through the door carrying Mark under our arms as Car and I lowered him onto a couch. Asha sat next to Mark still applying pressure to his wound. My grandfather walked to his back room and pulled out some medical supplies placing them on the floor and leaning next to Mark. Asha stepped back as my grandfather began to work on the wound.
"How do you know how to-?" Asha questioned pointing at the wound.
"I was a medic in the war in Iraq back in 2002. That's about when my grandson was born. I wish I could have been there to see that Evan. Your father and mother were so happy," he shared with us as I continued to try and read his face.
"How did you know where to find us?" I asked with my arms folded.
"Well," he began and pulled out some stitches and scissors, "You guys were on the national broadcast as fugitives so I knew you would need some help and with the agents guarding most of your father's old areas...there was really only one place you could go which was the retreat. But since you obtained a government helio...you were tracked."
"That explains the bad case of kaboom and machine gun kelly," Car added walking away from the three of us.
"Mr. Parker if you don't mind me asking...what's with all the security?" Asha questioned looking around.
"You can call me Cal sweetheart," he corrected and sighed, "When Evan's father started his research, he came to me one day and said that the attachments were pricy. So there was a chance that something bad was going to happen. As soon as I found out about the house fire and Evan, I built this place to keep myself hidden so I could keep an eye on Evan."
"You let me grow up without family," Evan exclaimed as the room grew quiet, "You knew I was still alive and you didn't even come around for me."
"Evan...I didn't want you to grow the way your father did. You didn't deserve to be raised in an environment like that. I wanted you to get a chance to have a normal life," he explained patching up Mark.
I shook my head and walked out the door. I took a couple deep breaths. Asha stepped out and I glanced at her attitude stance out of the corner of my right eye.
"What?" I asked swinging around to look at her.
"Drop the anger soon. Our parents only do what they do to protect us Evan," she stated walking back in looking behind her shoulder at me.
I turned back around looking down at the mountains. I was in pain for years because my parents were gone and then Cal comes in and tells me he is my grandfather. I lived without family for years and knowing he could have come for me just aches. But Asha was right. This science my father was working on would have affected my childhood early and I wouldn't have gotten the chance to have a normal life with normal friends.
I entered the house slowly as all eyes were on me and I paused to look at them. Mark stood up slowly and walked to a basement door where Cal followed him as Car and Asha continued to look at me.
"Where's Mark going?" I asked sitting in a chair across from Car.
"Cal has a lab in the basement your father didn't get a chance to use. You told Mark he had to fix the kinks in the formula so that you could use it so that's what he's working on," Car answered with anger.
