Chapter 46

As the evening breeze tiptoed over the clouds, a sunset spread across the sky, painting everything in warm hues. Nathan chuckled to himself. For someone with the mindset of a 36-year-old, he'd just felt a flash of something he thought he'd left behind—a flicker of youthful excitement. His shoelace had come undone, so he knelt to tie it. As he worked, a small smile curled up at the corner of his mouth. Maybe he was an old soul, but even an old soul still needed to tie his shoelaces in a bow, after all. … The days drifted by slowly, and before Nathan knew it, half a month had passed, carrying him into early July. The summer was now in full swing, and the weather was only getting hotter. Nathan's days had been busy and fulfilling. Filling with the thrill of new beginnings and, perhaps best of all, the joy of making money. When the college entrance exam results came out, the city compiled the statistics. Out of five or six thousand test-takers in Linkon City, only three had score