He spent three years on his knees. He was never meant to be there.
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Kael woke up in an alley three years ago with no memories and no name. The Morrison family took him in, gave him a job, and married him to their daughter to cover up her scandal. He's been their charity case ever since. Their embarrassment. The man they blame when things go wrong.
He's learned to keep his head down. Swallow the insults. Pick up the broken pieces and apologize for things that aren't his fault.
Then a billionaire takes one look at Kael's face and runs. Two men posing as health inspectors try to kill him in the restaurant kitchen, and Kael's body moves in ways he doesn't understand. When the attackers dissolve into golden light, nobody can explain what happened. Not even him.
His wife Ava starts dreaming his nightmares. Chains made of starlight. A trial before beings too terrible to look at. A name being erased syllable by syllable.
Kael wasn't lost. He was thrown away. Stripped of his memories and dumped on Earth by something called the Council. And now they've sent hunters to finish what they started.
The Morrisons wanted to divorce him. They should have done it sooner.
Because whatever Kael used to be? It's waking up. And it remembers how to fight back.
Will he reclaim the power they stole from him? Or will the gods finish erasing him before he remembers why they feared him in the first place?
