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CHAPTER 52

Author: ICE
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-26 06:46:27

~CASSIAN~

“It took you one month to pay that visit you promised,” I said the moment Viktor opened my office door, voice low, clipped, but carrying every ounce of meaning I wanted it to.

Viktor stopped just inside the doorway, grinning slow and deliberate, like the predator he is. “I guess you missed me,” he said, mockery dripping from every word. “Just as I wanted you to.”

I didn’t deny it. I just leaned back against my desk, arms folded, watching him like a snake slithering closer - not afraid, just calculating where it might strike first.

A whole month. Thirty days of silence when every nerve in my body had been tuned for an attack. I’d waited for a move from Viktor, for a bloody aftermath after our meeting. But nothing came.

Even Sienna, now embedded close to Aria, had gone eerily quiet. Not the good kind of quiet. The kind that sets every hair on your neck upright and screams that a storm’s coming. Nico too had gone dark, abandoning his usual reckless stunts and calculated provoca
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