Chapter 257

SIENNA

Valeria’s gaze snapped to me the second Gideon spoke.

Her lips curved slowly, chillingly.

“He knows, doesn't he?” she said, almost fondly, like she’d been waiting for this moment. “You played me.”

And then she started laughing.

Not a normal laugh.

It was unhinged.

It scraped across my nerves like broken glass.

Gideon didn’t react to her theatrics. He crossed the room in three measur