Chapter 2: The Murder of Breck Bednar
Breck Bednar was 13 years old and the brightest future ahead of him. He was incredibly intelligent and an absolute whiz at computers, he could have done anything he wanted with his life, until Breck met Lewis Daynes and everything changed.
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