The handwriting changed here. The tone grew bitter in its own way, as if the author resented even having to acknowledge the reality of it.
In the first life, Chris had it all.
His parents remained alive; Chris's father, Claude, had inherited the title of Viscount, not Adonis. Claude had become the head of the Malek family - oh, the hate in those words, the way the ink seemed to press harder as if resentment could be made physical through a pen.
Andrew had still become the Black family heir, but by marriage in that life, and Mia had married "a civilian beta colleague of Christopher with gold eyes."
Ethan, Dax thought, and it landed in his chest ugly, as the two had no chance to be together now. Lucius of Palatine won't give up on the girl, and Ethan was changing his secondary gender after saving dozens of lives.
Chris had met Dax by accident and married him. They had their first child within the year.
They were happy.
