Chasing Juno

Juno had always known that power came with a price.
He just never expected the bill to come in the form of himself.

After the events that forced his Pureblood Transition-after the pills, the lies, the manipulation that twisted his halfbreed nature into something unrecognizable-the truth finally surfaced. Everything he thought he understood about his lineage, his body, his place in the world... shattered.

And now, with the last pieces of his old life slipping through his fingers, Juno has no choice but to walk away from everything he's ever known.
Not to escape.
But to find himself again-before the world decides who he is for him.

Far behind him, in a city still trembling from the aftermath, Akito wakes.

Weak.
Disoriented.
And missing the one presence that had always been there in the back of his mind.

The blood bond is silent.

Juno is gone.

And Akito-heir, weapon, survivor-is left with only one truth burning through the fog of pain:

He has to find him.
Before Felix does.
Before the Senate's order becomes a death sentence.
Before Juno loses the last pieces of the boy Akito loves.

War is coming. Alliances fracture and reform like shifting shadows. Old enemies rise. New threats sharpen their teeth. And in the center of it all stands Juno-no longer halfbreed, no longer sheltered, no longer protected by anyone's rules but his own.

He wants peace.
He wants freedom.
He wants a world where no one has to bleed for what they are.

But peace demands sacrifice.
And the path he's chosen will ask for more than he ever imagined.

As Akito chases the ghost of the boy he once knew, and Juno fights to become the man he needs to be, one question haunts them both:

When they finally meet again...
will they still recognize each other?