The Alpha’s Dirty Little Secret
"The 'Exodus Project.' They didn't hide in the dirt like Silas. They left. They've been watching us from the lunar dark side for two hundred years, waiting for the atmosphere to clear."
"The message," Victor said, his voice dropping an octave. "Translate it."
Lyra looked at the moon. "It’s not a greeting, Papa. It’s a claim. It says: THE GARDEN IS READY FOR REAPING."
The heat in the room spiked. Victor felt the old fire in his marrow stir, the White Alpha screaming behind his ribs for the first time in a decade.
"So, that's it then?" Victor looked at the horizon, at the peaceful town he had spent half his life building. "One war ends, and the next one drops from the sky?"