Blood Owned-a Name Earned

Shane Johnstone was four years old when his parents’ debt was paid in blood. His father was a drug dealer who owed the wrong people. When the money couldn’t be found, both parents were executed—clean, deliberate, and final. The child they left behind should have disappeared with them. Instead, the gang kept him. Raised in the shadows by the organisation’s “nanny,” Shane grows up learning one rule above all others: loyalty is survival. Violence isn’t chaos—it’s structure. Discipline. Purpose. As a teenager, he becomes useful. As a young man, he becomes feared. They call him Merko—a name earned through obedience, precision, and acts that can never be undone. Each order carried out tightens the leash around his soul, pulling him deeper into the criminal machine that raised him. Alongside Leon “Swift Blade,” the gang’s ruthless enforcer, Merko rises from a disposable thug into a trusted weapon—reliable, controlled, and deadly. But in a world built on debt, blood, and silence, trust is temporary. And every knife cuts both ways.

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