The Devoured Heir

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Matic Rožič came home from the longhouse alive, but the man who returned was no longer the one who left.

The ancient wards beneath his family’s mountain are not failing. The portal they were built around is healing exactly as it was meant to, closing a wound that has existed for a thousand years. Which means the trusted wardsmith who has spent twenty years “repairing” them has been doing something else entirely.

Radomir has been building a passage.

He believes the legendary Worldbreaker still lives beyond the narrowing seam, and an increasingly desperate orc faction is willing to bleed for one final chance to bring their lost king home.

While Matic searches for the truth beneath the mountain, everything above it begins to collapse. Mirella’s family moves to marry her to another man, and the worst part is that her intended is kind, respectable, and capable of giving her the life Matic cannot. Danika discovers that the charming merchant courting her built his fortune on the weakness of other houses. The Munadi tighten their scrutiny. And every secret removal of Matic’s bracelet teaches him the same dangerous lesson: the shadows he was taught to fear may never have been the problem.

Then Thanedric begins teaching him about the other hunger.

Ruach.

Life itself.

For the first time, someone looks at Matic’s demon blood and offers instruction instead of restraint.

By the time the orcs descend on the mountain and Radomir opens the passage he has spent decades preparing, Matic must choose what he is willing to become to protect everything he still calls his.

He chooses brutality.

He chooses the shadows.

And when the dust settles, the woman he loves is gone, his family can no longer pretend he is unchanged, and only one man is waiting with the knowledge Matic has spent a century being denied.

This time, Matic chooses Thanedric.