Absorbing a shadow comes at a cost, and Theo pays it in full. Every extraction pulls the darkness out of a human host and into his own body, where it settles like poison, learning his shape. The pain arrives in waves. His pheromones spike. His vision twists. And underneath all of it, another piece of a life he has already lived too many times surfaces without permission — a face he can never quite name, a promise he can never quite remember making.
He is EON's ghost, moving under the Augustus family's protection — the same family that has taken him back every time he has returned. He does not remember all of his lives, but Augustus remembers for him. The suit is always waiting, and the role is always ready.
Then the dragon lord's descendant returns to the world after two thousand years, and Theo, who has spent every lifetime managing what he is not allowed to want, realizes that the one face he has never been able to forget has come to collect what he owes.
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