It took Tarquin a long moment to finally speak.

"You guys are... Quincy, right? Are you really Quincy?"

Elliot nodded again, more seriously this time. "Yeah. We are."

Tarquin just stared at him, stunned into silence for a good while.

Quincy. The Quincys. The name still echoed among the old guard of artists and fashion icons—absolute legends. To put it simply, even someone as proud as Grandpa Emmett would show them nothing but the utmost respect.

And Bernard... well, Tarquin didn't even have to ask about him.

He'd known it the moment he laid eyes on him.

That wild, brazen kid who made headlines for storming the ring in seven different countries-that was him!

Back then, foreign fighters had mocked Americans, calling them soft, and Bernard couldn't take it. He'd taken on challenger after challenger, fists flying, and showed the world what a real lion's strength looked like.

He was young, ridiculously strong, and so fierce that fighters from half of Europe and the States called him out, denouncing him for breaking the “spirit of sportsmanship" and spreading rumors he must have been doping to be that good.

His feats sent shockwaves around the world.

but even now, his name is still spoken with

dreamed of being somebody, admired him, envied him,

took a deep breath. These

grandparents? Certified,

every single one of them was

the grandpas too. They'd all supposedly died years ago. Who would've guessed they'd been living it up in the mountains all this time? Tarquin couldn't help himself. "So... why'd they fake their

spent half their lives working too hard and worrying too much. They just wanted a break, so they decided to

"...That's really the reason?"

was thinking. He'd wondered the same

noticed anything weird. They really do seem to

thinking it

suddenly dropping off the map, just

but it also

more to it,

be just a kid, but he was sharp-sharp enough to know

go for now. No

"I'm heading out for a bit. You and Elijah

your mom Keep an eye on Emmett and

what his dad was up to. He

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