Chapter 157: "Goodbye."
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Con stared at the ceiling in front of him.

He could tell that the position he had been placed in was an intentionally difficult one. Jane and Aubrey were giving him ultimatums. Them or the world. It was hard for him to decide on something like that. It wasn't he wanted to leave them, and it wasn't like he wanted them to feel like they didn't have him anymore.

But even they would have to admit that they lived in this world. And they didn't just live in it, they survived in it. Them and countless others.

If Horizon was the kind of world threatening organization he could feel they were, then no one would be safe. Not him, not them, not their kids. They would all be at risk and in danger and that was the one thing he did not want for them. He wanted them to still stay in this world.

If he had the power to stop whatever was coming now, then the right decision would be for him to stop it. There would be nothing to hold him back now that they were all like this.

If Jane and Aubrey were to le
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