With the secrets I’ve been keeping from everyoh the exception of Alice divulged to my grandpa and him joining Alid me, the three of us set off downstairs to the gym to begin my gramp's raining regime he had for us. Unbeknownst to us we were in for far mrueling training than both of us expected.

  “Alright, you two get oreadmills and start sprinting. I’ll tell you when you stop.”

  The both of us nodding at his and. We did as he told us to do and got to sprinting.

  …

  An hour in, Alice had colpsed, thus she was allowed to rest and take a breather whilst my gramps had me put on a 50-poued vest and tinue on. Ten minutes into my sprinting, Alice was directed over to a variety of maes and began w out on those.

  Minutes after that two-hour mark came around, my gramps gave me the signal that I was done and, with a good sweat worked up, he set me up on what Alice was using previously. From there, Alid I spent the few hours w out nearly nonstop, going from maes to free weights.

  And then to sparring and learning different bat teiques ter on. My gramps had us traihing possible with the expressed goal of improving our capabilities and at the end of it all, Alice was teetering on the brink of colpse

  “Dom, Alice, you’re done for today, good job not falling apart, the number of people I know who’ve gohrough this type of training and pleted it I t on one hand, scratch that makes it two now that the both of you are on it.” My gramps said, looking proud as be, while Alice was a sweaty, drenched mess. I was in a simir state too, although not ready to colpse like Alice was.

  “I’ll head upstairs first. e up whewo of you have ed yourselves off.”

  As he departed the gym and headed upstairs, I looked towards Alid said iweehs. “We did it, Alice.”

  “Y-yeah, we d-did, didn’t we?” She respoiredly and still somewhat out of breath.

  “Yup, I’m proud of you, Alice.”

  “I’m proud of you too, Dom.”

  If it wasn’t for the encement from me and the medstims I was iing her with as well as myself, there is no way her body would have been able to hold up for this long. All that training I’ve doh her over the years is finally showing its worth here.

  The mihe two of us had finally steadied our breathing and had our heart rates under trol, I got up and began walking for the showers but before I could head on in I heard a thump behind me and noticed Alice's legs giving out from under her.

  “Dom, I'm gonna need a bit of help.” She said, a bit embarrassed.

  “No problem, I got you.”

  My girl needing a hand, I picked her up, pg one arm under her knees and the other on her bad began carrying to the showers. Ohere, I brought her to the rger showers and asked her to stand on her own for a sed, and the moment I pced her down, I saw she was still a bit wobbly.

  “Looks like you ’t shower on your own, Alice.”

  “I guess you’ll just have to shower with me and help wash me, then.”

  “I suppose so.”

  With there being no other way around it besides going upstairs to grab a chair to put in the shower, which I didn’t feel like doing now that I was here, I got the water running and started washing the sweat from both her and I.

  Alice almost immediately started to blush and tio do shout most of the process. I would've stopped if she was unfortable, but she wore a smile throughout the ehing and seemed more than happy with what was taking pce.

  “I think that’s it, Alice. You should be spotless now. Let’s get dried, clothed, and head back upstairs. We ’t keep gramps waiting forever.”

  “Nnn.”

  Alice, happy as a cm, we did just that and made our stairs to the old man who we found napping on the couch.

  "It appears he’s passed out." I ented quietly.

  "Mm."

  "I feel a bit tired and I know you are too, so why don’t we take a short nap for ourselves and wake him up in an hour?" I suggested via a whisper.

  “Sounds good to me. My legs aren’t 100% yet so they could use some rest.”

  My gramps fast asleep, Alid I decided to do the same and proceeded to my room to cate zzzs. Right as we reached my room, I set my arm on my cell and hopped into bed with Alice, who was eagerly waiting for me to join her. Cuddling up together, we quickly fell asleep.

  *Beep…Beep…Beep…*

  “Ahhaawa, looks like that hour's up. Alice, it's time to get up and wake my gramps up.”

  “Mmm, let me sleep for a few more minutes.”

  “Sure, I’ll e arieve you when I have the meetup time.”

  “Thanks.” She said stly before quickly going back.

  Alice, wanting to rest more, I left her behind aed my room for the living room where my gramp resumably still passed out. As soon as I returo the living room, I found what I predicted I would find.

  Needing to get shit taken care of, I went over to my peacefully sleeping gramps and started shaking him while telling him he o wake up.

  “Gramps, you gotta wake up.”

  “I’ll get up in a minute.” He mumbled, waving me off.

  “Sigh, not you too.”

  “Gramps, GET UP.”

  “What-what’s going on?”

  “Good, you’re finally awake.”

  “Ahaa, that was a niap.” He said, stretg both of his arms above his head.

  “Alright, gramps, now that you’re up, we e that meeting with that piece of shit property owner.”

  “Okay, give me his phone number so I schedule the meeting.”

  Doing as my grandpa asked, I gave him William Andrew Broward’s personnel cell number before he dialed the number and gave the guy a ring. After a wee bit of bad forth, my gramps said he was ied in purchasing the property and with the guy being about as desperate as be to get rid of it he was able to easily arrange a meeting to take pce at the mine/ore processing facility I wao obtain.

  “It’s all set up, kid. We'll be meeting with this scumbag in an het ready to leave in half an hour. We got a bit of driving to do.”

  Following gramps getting things arranged, I made my way bay room a myself busy. When 25 minutes had passed by, I left my desk and walked over to Alice, who was still peacefully napping away, and began waking her up so we could head out ahis over with.

  “Alice, it’s time to get up.” I told her while giving her a couple of shakes.

  “I’m up, I’m up.” She said, quickly raising herself from our shared bed befoing into a stretch.

  “Do I o do anything before we go?” She asked.

  “No, we’re just going to go meet up with gramps who’s waiting in the living room watg TV.”

  “Okay, let's get going.”

  Nothing needing to be done in preparation for us going out. We headed to the living room where the old man was watg tv to pass the time. Upon spotting us ing from the hall, he shut the TV off and asked us whether we were ready to get a move on. We replied that we were thus the three of us loaded into his armored up pickup truck he’s been using since before he retired from being a wastend explorer.

  “We’re going to head to my pce first so I pick up a few things and from there we’ll go to the property to have our frontation with that William Andrew Broward.” My gramps said as he was adjusting his rearview mirror.

  “Why are we heading there?” Alice asked curiously.

  “You’ll see whe there.”