House Vaelor doesn't raise soft sons. It raises warriors. Heirs. Legends.
Aiden was never meant to be one of them. He's the charming one. The beautiful one. The one people look at but never take seriously. And in a family built on legacy, beauty feels temporary.
So when something ancient offers him eternity a way to never fade, never wrinkle, never become less Aiden says yes.
Immortality sounds like freedom. It isn't. It's hunger. It's teeth. It's realizing too late that being chosen isn't the same as being valued.
And now he has forever to endure what he's become.
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