An Understated Dominance by Marina Vittori

"He's awake! He's awake! Mr. Shaffer's awake!" Brooke was so ecstatic that he cried tears of joy when he saw Cinna open his eyes.

It had been ten years. Ten whole years! The person that he'd been watching over had finally come around! It was a pure joy that was simply indescribable.

"Thank god everything went smoothly." Dustin teared up when he saw Cinna slowly regaining consciousness. He could not contain his happiness.

It was as they had expected. Only Sanctifix was able to cure Cinna of his condition. All his efforts had not been in vain.

"Busch, where am I?" Cinna lay on the bed and looked around in confusion. Then, his gaze rested on Brooke, and he asked raspily, "And ... Why do you look so old?" He sounded like he was in discomfort.

"Mr. Shaffer, you're in a safe place. You have nothing to worry about. As for what you mentioned about me looking old ..." Brooke touched his face and chuckled wryly.

"It's been a decade since the last time you saw me. How could I still look the same?"

taken aback. Then, he quickly caught on to what Brooke meant, and his

"That's right." Brooke nodded.

ten years, I've tried every possible means I knew of to wake you up, but I haven't been able to. Thankfully, we've got Dustin here, who produced Sanctifix and

Dustin and asked curiously, "Was it you

in medicine but also well trained in alchemy and occult. He truly

sit up and thank Dustin, but his body

Even if Sanctifix had restored his health and rebuilt his circulatory pathways, it still wasn't possible for him to recover

you not able to recognize me after ten years of not seeing each other?"

know me?" Cinna looked Dustin up and down, "You do look pretty familiar. Could you be the child of someone I

Dustin said with

eyes as wide as saucers. He was in disbelief. "You ... You're really Logan?" "The one and only." Dustin did not further explain. He simply