Chapter 111
Author: Perfect Pen
last update2025-03-31 21:37:55

The moment felt like the end of everything.

Or maybe, the beginning.

Kael could feel the weight of it pressing down on his chest, an unbearable force that wrapped around his ribs, tightening like an unseen vice. It wasn’t fear. No, he had known fear before—its icy grip, its gnawing whispers. This was different. This was finality, the irreversible pull of a choice that had already been made long before he’d even realized it.

His breath was slow, measured, but his pulse pounded like war drums in his ears. A part of him wanted to resist, to cling to the frayed edges of what he knew, but there was no place left for hesitation. His fate had already been sealed.

And when he spoke, when he uttered the words that should have changed everything—

Nothing.

The air swallowed his voice before it could even reach the ears of his team. A cruel, unnatural silence.

Pamela was the first to react. Her entire body went rigid, fists clenching at her sides as though she could anchor herself through sheer f
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