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Chapter 39: Angrier Fathers

Auteur: Jupiter
last update Date de publication: 2026-10-31 15:22:30

Romeo and Juliet, but with more motorcycles and significantly angrier fathers.

The revelation hung in the room like smoke after an explosion, slow to clear, impossible to ignore. Ronan sat down heavily in the chair beside Killian's bed, running both hands through his hair, processing a betrayal that had reshaped itself, in the span of one conversation, from treason into something far more complicated and far harder to condemn outright.

The medical building around us had gone quiet in the way ro
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