The Mark They Feared, The Legacy That Ruined Them

he replied, grabbing his backpack.

At school, the reactions had never fully stopped.

Children had stared. Some whispered. Others were cruel.

“Half-face,” one boy had muttered just the week before.

Lucas hadn’t reacted.

He rarely did.

Because over time, something far more powerful had taken root inside him—a sharp, relentless drive to prove that what people continue reading …