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CHAPTER 79: ALEXANDER BREAKS HIS SILENCE

Author: Sire Bliss
last update publish date: 2026-09-16 13:28:14

Alexander's POV

I stood, and I buttoned my jacket, because my hands needed something to do, and I looked at the judge, and I understood that for the first time in my life I had no strategy.

That's the thing no one tells you about the bottom. There's a strange quiet down there. All the calculating stops, because there's nothing left to calculate. Every angle I'd have worked, every room I'd have read, gone. Elara's testimony had taken the last of it. My own words, read back to me in her voice. As
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