The Alpha's Plump Mistake
He limped heavily, dragging a deadened leg, yet his golden eyes burned with bitter clarity.
"The temple priests hid this for four dynasties, sister," Caelum replied, voice rough as gravel grinding against metal. "They called it astronomical heresy. When our mother died, I found broken tablets in the secret archive catacombs… The legend says the First Phoenix did not descend from the sun of its own will—it fled a war at the edge of the firmament, stealing a spark from the Primordial Throne to hide it within mortal flesh."
He coughed, spitting a thread of dark blood, and fixed his gaze on the small bundle dozing in Maya’s arms.