Chapter 108
Vanya
The roar of the crowd shook the arena walls like thunder. It wasn’t just a match anymore—this was spectacle, blood sport wrapped in ceremony. The final round. The end of everything, or the beginning of something greater.
My heart hammered in my chest as the giant screen flickered to life above the resting chamber, broadcasting faces in the crowd. The same arena where it all began, where my journey first collided with the Alpha Trials, was now where it would either end… or carve my name into history.
And there they were.
Danish, his smug face lit by the glow of the fireflies circling the stands. My father, his mouth pressed in a grim line that cut sharper than any blade. And beside him, Nero, his eyes narrowed, almost hungry.
The three men who had shaped my cage. The
