“I thought he didn’t want the child.”
“Don’t get it twisted—he didn’t want to be a father. He wanted to shape Alexander into a cold-blooded monster. When Alexander was born, Housni didn’t even want to name him. So Nahel did. He named him Alexander, which means ‘prince,’ because he was the prince of the Graves empire.”
Alexander’s story strangely mirrors my own.
“From a very young age, Alexander was trained to fight, to crush his enemies. He was forged into a war machine. Housni gave him no freedom or fun—only studying, because power doesn’t come to fools, and training to become the strongest. Nahel was the only one who genuinely cared about Alexander’s well-being, even if he never dared go against his brother—he knew what Housni was capable of.”
My heart twists imagining what Alexander
