C106 ICE HUNDRED AND SIX: THAT NIGHT TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO.

THANE'S POV:

Most people would've been furious about being kidnapped. Terrified. Plotting revenge.

I wasn't. Not exactly.

At the time, I remember the sting of a needle, the metallic taste in my mouth, and the blur of streetlights flickering past through the tinted glass. I’d been too drugged to resist, too disoriented to care.

Looking back now, it had been necessary.

Nonetheless