Chapter 69: It gets romantic in the palace
The door to the council chamber slammed behind her, the echo rattling through Valerie's bones like thunder chasing lightning. Her cheeks burned, her fingers trembled at her sides, and her breath came in quick, shallow waves. What she'd just seen—what she felt in that room between Darius and Odi—wasn't meant for her eyes.
It hadn't been a meeting. It had been a reckoning.
She stormed past the marble pillars of the grand corridor, nearly knocking over a vase on a pedestal. She didn't care. She needed to breathe, to move, to not think about the moans echoing in the supposedly sacred halls of Eldoria's power.
Rounding the corner at full speed, Valerie nearly tripped over Pete.
