His Rejected Luna, His Hidden Son
Light bled up my arm from the broken seal, the same impossible silver-white that had flooded Luca's veins, and in the dark glass of the window I saw my own eyes go full silver, edge to edge, exactly like my son's.
"Mama," Luca breathed, staring up at me. "Mama, you're shining."
"How long," said a voice from the doorway, "I have waited to see exactly that."
Cyrus Voss stood in the broken doorway of my son's nursery — immaculate, unhurried, not a hair disturbed by the slaughter he'd sent. Smiling like a man who, after twenty-four patient years, had finally gotten precisely what he came for.