Chapter 396
Julie's POV
Time was frozen. In that single, godforsaken second, Robert stood commanding the room with his towering, suffocating presence, locking his gaze on me. My eyes dilated in sheer terror as a single sentence repeated in my head like the tolling of a death knell: *He found me. Robert actually found me.* The deceptive calm in his dark eyes had completely vanished, replaced by a burning, poisonous malice unlike anything I had ever seen before.
His jaw clenched hard. When he spoke, his voice dripped with an aggressive contempt that shook the very walls of the room.
"Did you run away for this pathetic piece of trash?"
