Chapter 104
Vanya
I was beginning to doubt myself.
The thought alone made a cold shiver run through me, but the truth was worse—if Kross hadn’t helped me in the second trial, I might never have made it out of there. I hated even thinking it, but it was the reality I couldn’t shake. My ego wasn’t just bruised—it was tarnished. How had I missed the signs? How had I not recognized that it was a simulation and not the life I so desperately wanted?
Was I really that easy to eliminate?
The questions gnawed at me like a disease, digging into every ounce of confidence I’d built over the years. It was a dangerous c***k in my armor, one I couldn’t let anyone—especially him—see.
That’s why I was avoiding Kross. Not because I didn’t feel his eyes on me, watching, assessing, almost daring me to l
