~Valeria~
You ever feel like the goddess is just waiting for the perfect moment to ruin your day?
Yeah. That was exactly what happened the second we spotted the finish line.
We were so close, closer than I ever thought we could be.
I knew Zane and Lysander were also dreaming of the moment they would rub our victory in the face of our opponents.
It was right there, just a few meters away, glowing in that gold light like some sort of divine reward from the goddess. Our team had made it through puzzles, traps, shifting mazes, flying arrows, and collapsing floors. We were bruised, breathless, and running on nothing but adrenaline and hope.
We’d done the impossible. We survived.
And then they showed up.
That same group of arrogant jerks who had been on our case since the competition s
