Aeron's POV~
I could not believe my own eyes. For months, I had thought this day might never come, and yet here he was, Lucian. My baby brother.
The first shock still burned inside me when the second one hit even harder. Why now? Why suddenly? Why choose this night of all nights to appear?
Hope, joy, happiness—they all flooded me, rising too fast for me to hold. I wanted to go to him. I wanted to wrap him in my arms like Kael did, like Luca did, to feel for myself that he was real, standing here after all this time.
But I didn't move.
I only smiled, watching the three of them cling to each other, my brothers, the boys I had raised with my own hands even when we are of the same age. They were happy, and so was I. But unlike them, I could not show it, one of us has to take the responsibility here.
