Chapter 52
Vanya
Keeping it to myself had been the hardest part.
Each day since that night felt like walking a tightrope with flames below—knowing what I knew, carrying what I’d seen. Kross sneaking out, his shirt drenched in blood, that wild look in his eyes—more beast than boy. The rumors weren’t rumors anymore. They were facts. And I had seen them firsthand.
Kross was a Lycan.
And if that wasn’t terrifying enough, he was the very monster behind the recent attacks, the late-night screams echoing through the outskirts, the mangled victims that left the healers speechless. I didn’t think it anymore. I knew.
And yet…
I told no one. Not even Justin.
Because what could I say? “Hey, the golden boy of Thalvion, top of every trial, is secretly a deadly outlaw Lycan who probably murders p
