Chapter 340

Valeria’s POV

I stood there frozen, my body rigid as the Brute King advanced toward me, his every step echoing like a death sentence on the stone floor of his study.

His eyes were red, a flicker of disgust and anger burning in them, and for the first time since I’d come here, I saw him not as untouchable, not as this cold, immovable force, but as someone shattered, someone in pain.

And that made