Chapter 653: What Remains When Everything Breaks
Orion didn't look away from her.
He simply nodded once, slowly, as if the words had already settled inside him before she even finished speaking.
Sophia stared at him, her chest tightening painfully as she tried to understand why he wasn't reacting the way she expected.
"…Did you hear me?" she asked again, her voice breaking slightly as the tears continued to fall. "I said Victoria is my mother… the same Victoria who destroyed your pack… the same Victoria who forced all of you into Nirvana… the leader of the Enclave… that Victoria is my mother."
Her voice cracked at the end, like saying it again might finally force a different reaction from him.
But Orion only exhaled slowly and nodded again, his gaze steady on her.
"I heard you," he said simply.
Sophia's breath caught.
For a moment she just stared at him, searching his face for anger, for shock, for anything that matched what she felt inside her chest.
