THE PROFESSOR'S DIRTY CLAIM
“Not this. Never this.”
Then he kissed him—deep, claiming, grounding.
The kiss ignited something.
The temporal energy in the room reacted.
Blue light flared around them.
The illusions of their past selves screamed and dissolved.
The alternate Alex stood, face twisting with rage.
“You can’t reject the balance!”
But they could.
They did.
Damian and Alex kissed harder, hands roaming, bodies pressing together in the center of the fracturing timeline. The collar and chain between them glowed white-hot—not with submission, but with the pure, stubborn love that had survived every war, every mutation, every timeline.