Fadel’s POV

The research. It took me five years. With that mind he inherited from his mother, it might take him a decade to understand even half of it.”

Father struck me.

The hit barely shifted my face. I chuckled.

“Do it with your favorite son if you can,” I said. “Because I will not be helping you.”

And I walked out on him, leaving him with the son he chose over me and the consequences of that choice.

I knew one thing for certain. If I allowed Mason to touch the technology ...