Chapter 360

Valeria’s POV

I swore that night quietly, deeply, with every broken piece of my soul, that the Brute King would suffer.

Not loudly.

Not openly.

Not in a way that would ever point back to me.

I didn’t want his blood on my hands yet.

I wanted his power stripped.

His throne was torn from beneath him.

His name was dragged before the Elders like filth scraped from a boot.

And he would never know it was