Could you handle living forever, knowing you would watch your friends grow old and die?<br><br>These are questions newly minted Doctor Marco Sartori d’Argenzio must face when he and his partner Danilo Rosati celebrate Marco’s completed residency and Danilo’s most recent PhD with a vacation at Marco’s father’s home in the Duchy of Aragoni. There Marco learns about his family’s legacy: his father is more than two thousand years old, and he can expect to live just as long.<br><br>Marco inherits his uncle’s title amidst adventure and danger, but it breaks his heart to realize that he’ll live only to see the man he’s loved for a decade grow old and die. However, there is hope: Danilo is studying the unique DNA of Marco’s family in hops of discovering the secret -- because Danilo has no intention of leaving Marco alone for what could be forever.

The Path to Forever

“This trip resembles most of the trips we’ve made to Florida, doesn’t it?” Dani said once we were airborne.


“No shit. By the way, how’s the project coming along? I keep forgetting to ask you. Don’t you have a meeting with il Ducanext week?”


“Yeah. I’ll be giving him a progress report; but to answer your question, I’ll be ready to start drawing blood in about a week.”


“He’ll ask you why you haven’t already been drawing blood.”


“Yeah, and you and I both know the answer lies in the shelf life of stored blood; parts of it begin to degrade after a few days. Actually, he already knows my timetable. At the end of my first week on the job, I handed him a five page outline of how I intended to proceed, and why.”


Chapter 44