After what felt like a lifetime of charging down streets, cross streets, and alleys, they found Fairview Tower and rode the lift tubes down to level 20. Once there, Ethan raced down the hallway until he came to apartment 20G. He raised his hand to trigger the buzzer by the door, but then he hesitated.Would Alara be happy to see him? Or would she tell him to go jump off the nearest rooftop?“What are you waiting for?” the redhead standing behind him asked.Ethan cast a grimace over his shoulder. “A miracle,” he replied, and then he touched the buzzer.Moments later the door swished open and Alara appeared, her violet eyes wide and shining. She was even more beautiful than he remembered her.“Who are you?” Alara asked, her gaze flicking from Ethan to the redhead beside him and back again.Ethan’s jaw dropped. She didn’t even remember him! What had Omnius done to her?!“Don’t you recognize me?” he asked. But then he realized why. Therius had cloned him on Origin and in the process he’d turned the clock back by about thirty years.
