Chapter 183

Harper

Victor didn’t speak.

At first, I thought he might—his mouth parted slightly, like a breath was about to turn into words—but nothing came.

Whatever he had planned to say never made it past the weight that had just been dropped on him.

He stood there, frozen in a way that wasn’t physical. His body was still upright, still solid, but his eyes… his eyes had gone somewhere else. Somewhere far, f