Chapter 25
Fractured Loyalties
(Andy’s POV)
It was a cruel twist of fate that had me back in London. I’d thought I’d buried my ties to this place, leaving behind the tangled mess of family obligations, resentment, and the suffocating weight of expectations. But no matter how far I ran, how hard I tried to carve out my own life, the past always found a way to drag me back.
And this time, it had succeeded.
“Andy, you’re going to need to come home,” Jay had said, his voice calm and measured, like it always was. He hadn’t explained what was going on. He didn’t need to. When Jay called, I knew it meant something big, something that had the potential to rip us all apart.
So, I’d come back. I’d walked through those grand front doors with my head held high, pretending I wasn’t suffocating un
