AVA
There's a thin line between fear and panic and I was standing on the line… on one leg.
For a few seconds, I just sat there holding my phone tightly in my hand and forcing my brain not to overthink anything. Especially what just happened.
How scary can human beings get?
I picked up my phone immediately and sent Daniel a message. “It’s urgent… please come.”
I sat on the couch with my laptop open to the Lang Holdings shell-company diagram Daniel had sent over, but the lines kept blurring.
Ava, what have you gotten yourself into!
Viktor’s voice still echoed in my head, calm, proud, utterly without shame. He’d poisoned me and is now acting as though he is offering me a throne, the arrogance of it burning like acid in my veins.
The apartment smelled faintly of citrus diffuser and
