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He leapt up, tangled in the sweat-soaked sheets, heart pounding so hard he gasped for breath.  \nAs he hovered between nightmare and waking, he thought he could hear the others, their grunts and growls and soft snarls as they slept.  \nMore like puppies than little boys, the night nurse would say. She always smiled when she said it, but the boy saw no smile, only bared teeth, the snap in her voice saying she didn’t find it funny at all. She found it strange, disturbing, wrong. Like when she got angry and called them brats and savages and, her favorite insult, hissed in their ears . . .  \nLittle beasts.  \nAs the nightmare slid away, so did the sounds of the others. The boy looked over, squinting to see in the dark, windowless room, only a sliver of light coming from under the door.  \nHe turned toward the other three beds and knew what he’d see. Empty, as they had been for four nights now, the covers pulled tight, the boys gone, never to return, leaving him behind, alone.  \nKelley Armstrong Dangerous 1  \nHe didn’t mind that so much. Being alone meant there was no one to snap at him, claw him, bite him, corner him in the play-yard, the three of them ganging up on him.  \nThe doctors and nurses never interfered. They only watched, whispering among themselves, saying words like outcast and omega, pack and hierarchy, words he didn’t understand, words they jotted furiously into their notebooks.  \nSo, no, he wasn’t sad to see the others gone. What bothered him was how they left. He tried to forget, but of course he couldn’t.  \nThe Incident, the doctors and nurses called it. Another word he didn’t understand, but he shivered each time he heard it.  \nIt had started with a new nurse. A young, pretty nurse, who’d gotten mad when the older one called them little beasts, and snuck them candies and chocolate bars and soda pop. He’d liked her. To the others, though, her kindness smelled like weakness, and they’d used it to get what they wanted, always smiling and holding her hand and asking for more treats.  \nThen the other nurse found out and put a stop to the gifts. The other boys hadn’t liked that. They’d wheedled and begged, but the young nurse said no, she wasn’t allowed to bring them anything.  \nThen, one night, she snuck in to see them. Just to see them—tuck them in, kiss them goodnight. Only the other boys thought she’d brought them treats, and when they found out she hadn’t—  \nThe boy squeezed his eyes shut, but it didn’t help. He still saw them, backing her into the corner, then pouncing. He still heard her screams. Still smelled the blood that had flecked the walls as they’d swarmed over her.  \nKelley Armstrong Dangerous 2  \nHe might be the biggest, but he was no match for all three of them. So he’d run to the door and banged and shouted, making more noise than he ever had in his life.  \nThe guards had rescued the nurse. Then they’d taken him out, and put him in the schoolroom, gave him milk and cookies, and told him he’d done the right thing and they were proud of him.  \nBut they hadn’t sounded proud. They’d sounded scared.  \nIt was nearly morning when the old nurse took him back to the bedroom. The other boys were gone. And they never came back.  \nHe never thought to ask what had happened to them. Nothing in his young life led him to believe that question—or any other—would be answered.  \nHe’d been born here, with the other three. Lived here all his life, five years now. He’d never been outside the front doors. He wouldn’t even know where they were. He only went out the back ones and only into the play yard.  \nThe yard had walls so high he could only see the tops of buildings. As for what was out there, he wasn’t really sure. He had books, and he was a good reader, but for him, the world depicted within those pages might have well been the moon for all the resemblance it bore to his life.  \nHe read about things like mothers and fathe","cbCaijG1aJ7Os0mH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijG1aJ7Os0mH","pdf",284598,107,"English","# Prologue\n## Ten Years Earlier","[{\"question\":\"Why does the boy wake up screaming at night?\",\"answer\":\"He repeatedly wakes from nightmares, hearing the others’ growls and snarls as they sleep.\"},{\"question\":\"What is “The Incident” and why is it feared?\",\"answer\":\"Doctors and nurses call the event “The Incident,” and the boy shivers whenever he hears the term because it connects to violence and the other boys being gone.\"},{\"question\":\"How are the other boys taken away?\",\"answer\":\"After the nurse is attacked and rescued, the boy is returned to the bedroom, and the other boys have vanished and never come back.\"}]","Prologue - Ten Years Earlier | PDF",1789971332,165]