Chapter 99. Shadow Legends

Zachili POV

Hating my brother ended a year after my disappearance, when I was taught that to become an assassin, I had to let go of any feelings. Including hate.

Meeting him again convinced me that I was right not to hate him. I studied him carefully.

His nervous brows.

His timid lashes.

His avoiding eyes.

His sealed lips.

And his relentless sweat.

He has truly changed from the ten-year-old boy he was twenty years ago—the boy who continuously rang in my ears that our father cared more for him than any child, the boy who took each childish quarrels as an opportunity to dare me.

2005.

“You’re just a backup. Disappear a day and s