As Kaiden stepped through the grand archway of Ashborn Manor, the heavy doors groaned open, revealing the vast interior beyond.
The manor’s entrance hall was a spectacle of nothing but pure pride and power.
Vaulted ceilings stretched high above, painted with gold-trimmed murals of the Ashborn bloodline’s victories and the achievements of their high-tier guild, New Dawn.
The floor was an immaculate black marble, so polished it reflected the entire party like a mirror. Twin staircases curved upward, framing the main corridor that led deeper into the estate.
Lining the sides of the hall stood a formation of maids in crisp black and white uniforms, all standing straight-backed in a line. Their postures were flawless, eyes lowered, but not a single one bowed to Kaiden as they should to a direct line heir of the family.
Not a single one greeted him properly.
They bowed to him as if he were any other guest the Ashborn family decided to entertain in their home.
It didn’t matter that he was the oldest male child of the Ashborn family. Not after being disowned.
Alice’s arms tightened protectively around him, her gaze sharpening as she caught the coldness in the air. If her body language could scream, it would’ve threatened the maids and their whole lineage with brutal execution.
Then the atmosphere shifted.
From the upper staircase, three new figures emerged.
Descending with predatory elegance came the rest of the Ashborn siblings.
Twin brothers flanked a tall, imperious woman at the center; with each step they took, they oozed disdain.
The two men were mirror images of each other, tall and sharp-featured. Both wore dark formal combat robes lined with crimson, their lean frames made for speed and grace rather than brute power. They moved with the precision of hunters. Their eyes were red, and their hair was pure black.
These were Calix and Cassian Ashborn, the family’s twin prodigies.
And between them walked Selena Ashborn, the firstborn child. Taller than even the twins, her presence alone could command the room. Her long black hair flowed over her crimson-decorated shoulders. Her expression was calm but icy. Her eyes, which were akin to twin rubies, locked on Kaiden, and her lips curled into a smirk of superiority.
Selena spoke first, her voice a sharp, venomous blade. "Well, well, well. The generational failure returns."
Cassian snorted. "I simply can’t believe that Mother allowed you to enter after what you’d done."
Calix added with a nod, "The stench of a loser alone is proof enough he doesn’t belong in these halls. And look at what he’s brought. Four whores and a parasite hanging off his neck."
Alice’s body flinched. A low crack echoed in the hall as Alice slammed her heel into the marble floor hard enough to fracture it.
Her glare turned murderous, fangs bared. Alice’s body burned with fury, but before she could lunge, a hand settled on her shoulder.
She gasped.
Not from the touch, but from the impossibility of it.
’Impossible...!’
Because the pressure that suddenly blanketed the hall did not come from the twins.
It came from him.
Kaiden’s aura shifted in an instant, the gentle warmth she once knew drowned beneath a maelstrom of raw malice. His once-calm expression darkened into something terrifyingly still. The eye of a storm right before the world is torn apart.
His eyes changed.
No longer the simple red of an Ashborn outcast.

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