LOGIN"He forced me to abort our child. He cheated on me and gave me divorce papers." Videl Walker gave a man everything and was repaid with betrayal. For three years, she stood behind Eric Walker, quietly saving his collapsing empire, lifting him into power while the world crowned him a billionaire. In return, he cheated, discarded her, and erased her existence as if she had meant nothing. He thought she was weak. He was wrong. Videl is not just a discarded wife. She is a trained leader, raised in blood and discipline, forged by loss long before Eric ever entered her life. Eight years ago, her parents were murdered, her homeland Goma Island was sealed from the world, and revenge became the only thing keeping her alive. Now she is back. Eric Walker’s success was built on her sacrifice, and she intends to reclaim everything, piece by piece. But Eric is only the beginning. Beyond him lies a greater enemy, a locked island, and a debt written in blood. Videl is done being silent. Done being merciful. Done being invisible. This time, she will not beg. She will not forgive. She will destroy.
View MoreThe food Cleopatra left behind wasn't nearly enough to go around. I tried to pass the rations to the rest of the group, but they wouldn't hear of it. They looked at me with those tired, sunken eyes and pushed my hand back, insisting that I was the one who needed the strength to keep us alive. Seeing them so weak yet so stubborn for my sake made my heart ache with a weight I couldn't describe.I looked over at the man I had pulled from the shadows. He sat alone, ignored by everyone else. I walked over and handed him a share of the food. He took it with a stiff, formal nod and murmured a quiet thank you. I sank onto the floor beside him, the cold of the bunker seeping through my clothes.As we chewed the dry bread, I tried to break the wall he had built around himself. I asked him how long he had been caged up in that hole.He didn't even turn his head. "None of Ur business," he rasped.I felt a flash of irritation and frowned in displeasure. I had risked everything to get him out, and
The boat sliced through the dark water, but my mind was already back in that hallway. The realization of the dead guards felt like a noose tightening around my family's necks."Turn it around," I commanded.Cleopatra’s face shifted, the porcelain calm replaced by a flicker of pure dread. "Videl, if we go back now and get caught—""I won't get caught," I cut her off, my eyes fixed on the silhouette of the palace. "But my family won't survive the night if I'm not there when the alarm sounds. Go."She swung the vessel around in a sharp, spray-heavy arc. We slipped back into the hidden arteries of the palace, moving like ghosts through the service ducts. Suddenly, I stopped. I felt a cold knot tighten in my chest."What is it?" Cleopatra whispered."I have no idea where they are held," I admitted, my voice tight. "The cells were moved after my capture. I'm blind."Cleopatra let out a small, hollow chuckle. "Not a problem. Follow me."She led me toward the high-security barracks. In the co
The cold stone walls of the cell felt like they were pressing the air out of my lungs. I sat there in the dark, the silence of the prison broken only by the ragged rhythm of my own shallow breathing. Sleep, heavy and insistent, began to drag me under. My head drifted forward, and I lost myself in the gray space between wakefulness and oblivion.Then, a faint sound, a whisper of motion, jolted me.My instincts, sharpened by years of combat, flared to life. I was about to surge up and strike, but the figure in the shadows held up a hand. She placed a finger to her own lips, signaling for absolute silence."Shhh."I squinted through the gloom, my heart hammering against my ribs. The woman was unnaturally still. As she leaned into the small patch of moonlight filtering through the cell’s ventilation grate, I saw her face clearly. She was young, her skin an incredibly fair, porcelain tone that seemed almost luminous in the dark. Her hair was a striking, doll-like platinum blonde, and her e
Videl.."Take her," Atticus commanded, his hand sweeping toward the dark, yawning threshold of the sub-levels. "To the Sanctum of the Blood Moon. She will be the ultimate sacrifice to the god of the abyss on the night of the looming Eclipse. Let her rot in the suffocating dark until the stars align. I want her to have plenty of time to reflect on her failures."I didn’t fight. I didn’t claw at the air or beg for mercy. The resistance that had fueled me for eight years—the fire of the General, the iron will of the strategist—had been extinguished in the moment I saw my army lying dead in the courtyard. I had lost the will. The heavy iron shackles were clamped onto my wrists with a brutal snap, the cold metal biting into my skin, but I barely felt it. I was a shell, empty and hollowed out by the crushing weight of my own ruin.The guards shoved me forward, their hands rough against my shoulders. I was marched down into the bowels of the palace, away from the light of the sun and the air
Videl...A week had already passed.Life settled into a rhythm that felt familiar in a way I hadn’t expected, like slipping back into a skin I once wore so often it never really left me. I woke early, showered, had breakfast, drove to Greenland Vanguard Academy, trained until my muscles screamed, at
VIDEL..The sound of my phone alarm cut sharply through the quiet.I jerked awake with a gasp, my heart pounding, my body stiff as though I had been dragged out of a nightmare. For a moment, I did not know where I was. The ceiling above me felt unfamiliar, too high, too clean, too still.Then reali
VIDEL..For a moment, I just stood there.The night air brushed against my skin, cool and familiar, carrying the scent of the sea and flowers I had not smelled in years. Rows of people still stood at attention, salutes crisp and precise, faces serious. Yet their eyes betrayed them. Warm and Steady.
VIDEL..I bent down and picked up the folder.The papers were smooth beneath my fingers, too neat for something meant to end a life. I flipped it open slowly, my eyes moving over the printed lines without hurry.A lump sum settlement.Five hundred thousand.One residential property, transferred upo
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