He wasn’t raised. He was engineered.
Percival Chapman learns early that childhood is just a softer word for captivity. In a house where love is a weapon and silence is survival, he becomes fluent in fear, in obedience, in watching everything and saying nothing. Bruises fade. Lessons don’t.
By the time the world finally looks away, Percival is already something else, stitched together from restraint and rage. He doesn’t lash out. He calculates. He doesn’t cry. He memorizes. Every insult becomes a blueprint. Every punishment becomes practice.
Then an assassin organization finds him and mistakes the damage for destiny.
They give him a new name. A new purpose. A new kind of family.
They don’t ask if he wants it. They only ask if he can do what they need.
And he can.
As loyalty is tested, blood is bargained, and mercy is starved out of him piece by piece, Percival must decide what’s worse: becoming the monster they built… or realizing he was always capable of it.
The Jackal is a dark origin novella about violence, survival, and the moment a boy stops asking why me and starts asking how do I win.
Genre: Romance
Percival Chapman learns early that childhood is just a softer word for captivity. In a house where love is a weapon and silence is survival, he becomes fluent in fear, in obedience, in watching everything and saying nothing. Bruises fade. Lessons don’t.
By the time the world finally looks away, Percival is already something else, stitched together from restraint and rage. He doesn’t lash out. He calculates. He doesn’t cry. He memorizes. Every insult becomes a blueprint. Every punishment becomes practice.
Then an assassin organization finds him and mistakes the damage for destiny.
They give him a new name. A new purpose. A new kind of family.
They don’t ask if he wants it. They only ask if he can do what they need.
And he can.
As loyalty is tested, blood is bargained, and mercy is starved out of him piece by piece, Percival must decide what’s worse: becoming the monster they built… or realizing he was always capable of it.
The Jackal is a dark origin novella about violence, survival, and the moment a boy stops asking why me and starts asking how do I win.
Genre: Romance