Chapter 379

Valeria’s POV

My heart stopped.

Not slowed. Not skipped.

Stopped.

The world around me seemed to tilt, sounds fading into a distant, muffled hum as if I had been plunged underwater. The warmth of the sun vanished, replaced by a sudden, bone-deep chill that wrapped around my spine and squeezed.

Valeria.

That name did not belong to this life.

That name belonged to something buried.

Something dangerou