Chapter 29 *

Vesper's POV

I ran all the way down the mountain, not encountering a single soul along the way.

It wasn't until I reached the base of the mountain, where the wide road was illuminated by streetlights, that I finally stopped.

I still hadn't fully processed why Kreznik had let me go so easily. To anyone else, my performance back there might have genuinely seemed like that of an innocent, harmless g