For five years Oliver Queen was presumed dead. His return to Starling City, with a daughter, sparks more speculation than his disappearance had. But Oliver isn't the same Omega who went missing. He is a man with secrets. His nightly vigilantism. The father of his child. The Bond marks on his shoulder and wrist. He can't risk the truth of any of it being revealed. But there is one person in his life who refuses to accept his secrets. Who sees through the mask he wears.
Malcolm Merlyn is no fool. He sees that Oliver has changed. Drastically changed. That the young Omega has many secrets. May even be the vigilante threatening to destroy everything Malcolm has been working towards for years. He doesn't expect that his search for answers to those secrets would reveal more than just the truth about how Oliver spent his nights. He doesn't expect his world to be turned upside down and his beliefs shaken to the very core.
Characters/Ships: Malcolm/Oliver
Topic Warnings: explicit sexual content, canonical violence
Word Count: 47256 (26 Chapters)
