Chapter 122
Vanya
The portal swallowed me whole.
For a moment, I couldn’t tell if I was walking or floating. My body was moving forward, but the ground beneath me was shifting—like molten glass, scarlet and endless. Everything here was drenched in red, the sky bleeding, the air suffocating, the shadows crawling as though alive.
I kept walking, though my chest burned with something heavier than this world. My mate’s face flickered in my mind, sharp as a blade. Kross Steele chose his ambition over me.
I scoffed bitterly, the sound swallowed by the thick, blood-colored mist. I had known. Deep down, I had always known what choice he would make. I had even been warned. And the most tragic part? They had been right. He had been predictable. I had been foolish enough to hope otherwise.
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