THE ALPHA'S HIDDEN HEIRS
“Bullshit. You only came now because you need something. You don’t come for people, Eric. You come for assets.”
“I came,” he rasped, “because I heard what Lucas is about to awaken. Because I saw your name on the encrypted manifest for the veil tech drop.”
my chest tightened. So that’s what drew him. Not love. Not loyalty. Information.
“So it was about power.”
He didn’t deny it.
“I failed you,” Eric admitted, voice hoarse, as though the words themselves cost blood. “But I’m here now because this isn’t about you and me anymore. This is about the end of the world. And I can’t fix it without you.”