Lahat ng Kabanata ng THE HIDDEN RIVAL: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 14

RIVAL’S POV Something snapped inside me the moment I walked out of Boris’ office, it was not panic or not fear, fear was the last thing I was feeling now, what I felt now is Focus, The kind that kicks in when you realize you’ve stepped onto a battlefield, and there’s no backing out. The only way out is through it and to even know that your enemy was watching your every single move. But for me to focus first, I needed to know what the fuck I was actually dealing with, I wasn’t going to kill anyone blindly, not even if it meant Boris would personally break every bone in my body, nah am kidding but I needed leverage, a plan or at least a truth I could twist into armor. So I waited until the next shift change when guards switched duty post, and When they got sloppy. When the lights dimmed, and most recruits passed out from fatigue or hunger, and when am sure the CCTV camera are turned off for thirty minutes like they do daily. Shadow had dozed off, blade still half-hid under his pi

RIVAL’S POVWhen the chants died down the guards excourted me back to the dorm, I walked back into the room they called a dorm like it was anything but a cage, I know I say it every time but that the reality.. The hallway was unusually cold not because the air was freezing or something, but because he wasn’t walking next to me. Shadow wasn’t humming some offbeat tune or wasn’t cracking a joke to cut through the tension and he wasn’t alive either he was dead and I was the one that murdered him. Because I made it that way and I didn't have a choice to begin with, the scent of sweat, bleach, and metal hit me like a wall the moment I pushed open the heavy steel door. My boots echoed across the concrete floor. I expected silence. But someone was already inside the dorm room, a figure stood in the corner, half-lit by the cracked overhead bulb. When he turned to face me, I didn’t even blink my eye. Just like I fucking thought, They’d already gotten a replacement, they've already given m