Pearly Feathers • BL

❛The greatest passion is often the one we are told to deny.❜ ─ Leo Tolstoy

Aleksei Kirov rules with an iron will and a heart of ice. As the feared leader of the Zverin Empire, his name alone commands loyalty―or death. His world is one of absolute control: empires built on blood, silence, and fear. No mistakes. No weakness. No attachments.

An unexpected guardianship is thrust upon him―a child no one knew existed, too quiet, too delicate, too innocent, and out of place in Aleksei's brutal world. He should have been a liability. A problem to be solved quietly. Instead, the boy becomes something far more dangerous: a crack in Aleksei's armor.

As enemies stir and the foundations of his empire begin to shift, Aleksei faces a threat unlike any he's known―not from the outside, but from within.

Because in a world where power is survival, even the smallest crack can bring an empire crashing down.

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2025 LYN. Original Work
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