isamontague
When Leo, a 22-year-old orphan scraping by in a dying dome city, wakes up to find half his world reduced to rubble, he thinks he's finally run out of luck. But instead of dying beneath concrete and steel, he's pulled from the wreckage by Callan Pierce, humanity's golden Aegis pilot and a man who never breaks protocol... until now.
Dragged into a hidden resistance base, Leo becomes the center of a dangerous new program: bonding human pilots with Nephilim cores to power the next evolution of war machines. The catch? The bond is permanent and only works with someone you're biologically and emotionally compatible with.
Callan and Leo are the first match. Neither asked for this, and neither wants it, but the future of Earth may depend on what they become together.
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The story will have slow updates, meaning 1 chapter per week!
Please note that some trigger warnings may contain story spoilers, and always take care of yourself; you matter🖤
This book contains: graphic violence, combat scenes, death and mass casualties, PTSD and trauma responses, post-apocalyptic survival scenarios with resource scarcity and starvation, dystopian government oppression, medical experimentation and forced procedures, power imbalances in relationships, kidnapping and captivity, alpha/omega dynamics with biological heat cycles and possessive behavior, explicit sexual content, light BDSM, parental death and grief, poverty and homelessness, identity transformation, morally complex themes involving genocide and "necessary evil" decisions, and systemic discrimination.