Upper East Siders; everyone loves a hero—until they learn just how close that hero came to making an impossible choice.
Sources whisper Dain Aetos has been hiding a dangerous truth. In the darkest moments of the war, he seriously considered turning Venin, believing it might be the only way to gain enough power to finally end the fighting once and for all.
Those closest to him insist he never crossed that line. They say when the choice was finally in front of him, Dain stopped himself, refusing to sacrifice everything he stood for—even if it meant walking away from the power that could have changed the outcome of the war.
Still, some secrets don't have to become reality to leave a mark. Sometimes the mere thought is enough to make everyone question what someone is truly capable of... and whether desperation can make even the strongest convictions waver.
Because once you've imagined becoming the enemy... can anyone really pretend that possibility never existed?
Now the question isn't whether Dain chose the darkness.
It's whether those around him will ever look at him the same way again.
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