[Evelina's POV—Vinter's Mansion—Continuation]
The system's glow vanished and the silence it left behind was worse.
Alina squeezed my hand. "Aunty? Why do you look like that?"
I forced a smile. "Nothing, sweetheart. Just thinking."
My eyes drifted across the hall—new guards, new servants, fresh uniforms, unfamiliar postures. Theo had replaced everyone and scrubbed the mansion clean like a battlefield after rain. And yet—
The final episode begins with Alina's kidnapping.
Which meant one thing: someone here belonged to Cassian.
My fingers tightened around Alina's hand as my thoughts spiraled—sharp, cold, and unforgiving.
If Alina gets kidnapped, Cassian dies. If Cassian dies, Theo's greatest nightmare ends. If Theo's nightmare ends… I go home.
Back to my world. Back to quiet mornings and empty rooms. Back to a life where no Theo will be clingy to me and look at me like...I am his.
The game had made it so simple.
Too simple...yet why do I feel so heavy?
