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Xavier King was never supposed to fall.
Especially not for me.
But now the king is silent—trapped in a coma—and the Raiders expect me to rule in his place.
I never wanted a throne.
I never wanted their empire of steel, blood, and whispered fear.
Yet the city listens when I speak.
Deals move when I give orders.
Men twice my size bow their heads when I walk past.
And the worst part?
I’m starting to like it.
Asher’s cold calculations steady me.
Isaiah’s unholy loyalty shields me.
Together, they push me into a power I was never meant to touch.
And I rise faster than any of us expected.
But power has a memory.
As we dig into the past—into the night the Raiders lost their former king—something inside me fractures.
An alley.
Cold metal in my hands.
A choice I made to survive.
The truth comes back all at once.
I didn’t just survive the king.
I killed him.
And when the Raiders realize I beat them to it…
they won’t see me as a victim.
They’ll see me as a rival.