Prologue
Hershey, Pennsylvania 1997
Evan Buckley was only five years old when his life was completely uprooted. Maddie, the only person who truly loved him had left and now he was being sent to Chicago to live with complete strangers. Evan had always known Robert Buckley wasn’t his father as the man would never let him forget it. There were only three people in this world that man loved and Evan was not one of them. It was a hard lesson for a five year old to learn but he did and he learned it fast.
From the outside they looked like the perfect family but nobody knew the pain little Evan went through daily. It was never physical but the emotional toll had started to weigh on the toddler. When his mother sat him down and told him he was going to live with his father Evan begged her to let him stay, he hated living with them but it was at least familiar and he knew how to remain unseen. His mother showed him no motherly affection and left him alone crying in his room. A couple days he was being driven away from everything he had ever known. He had no idea his life was about to become much happier and healthy.