The sky was filled with the burning of fire and lightning. Dragons roared through storm-lit clouds, their scales glistening with the glow of war. Below, the kingdom of Drakos clashed against the celestial might of the angels, a battle that had raged for millennium—long before Rubin was even born. Rubin had been raised with the stories. Tales of great but fallen warriors, of noble dragons defending their homeland from the winged tyrants of the heavens. His father, King Vaelor, had taught him that angels were their sworn enemies, their light a threat to dragonkind’s very existence. To love an angel was to betray one’s own blood. And yet… Among the chaos of battle, amid the endless clash of steel and the cries of the wounded, Rubin’s fate unraveled in way he could never have foreseen. His amber eyes met a pair of silver ones—eyes that belonged to none other than Himu, the angel prince and Rubin’s sworn enemy. Himu was everything Rubin had been taught to despise. Wings of pure light, a voice that carried the weight of celestial power, and a presence that sent shivers down Rubin’s spine. But there was no hatred in those silver eyes. No cruelty. Only a quiet understanding, a whisper of something forbidden. In that fleeting moment, as war thundered around them, Rubin knew his world had to change forever. For the first time in his life, he questioned everything he had been told. For the first time in his life he wondered who was the true evil. For the first time in his life, he understood what it meant to fall. And in a war where love was the greatest sin of all, he realized he had just committed the ultimate betrayal.