Chapter 102

Valeria’s POV

Since arriving in the Occident, I hadn’t shed a single tear. I had pushed down my pain, forcing myself to move forward, to leave the past buried deep. But talking about Boris, recalling what he had done to me, pulled that pain back up to the surface, raw and unhealed.

Memories flooded in, sharp and vivid—Boris dragging me from my room, barely clothed, shackled and humiliated. His bet