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

“How much of this, if anything, do we tell Angelina? She’s hoping that I will find some medical answers to her problem; as you might imagine, she considers herself to be something of a freak, and wants desperately to be normal. Along those same lines, if you tell her anything, how do we get past the fact that I’m violating patient confidentiality by telling you any of this?”


“Let me think about that. I told you that I hope to marry her, yes?”


“She wanted to know how I would feel if that happened.”


“I told her simply that you weren’t bothered by the fact that I’ve lived with Dani all these years, so why should I take issue with your personal life. She was pleased when I said that. And I’m digging myself in deeper here. I shouldn’t be talking about any of this.”


“This, my boy, is one of those times when the ‘greater good’ comes into play.”


Chapter 108