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Chapter 486 - 486/The Birth of a Predator

Chapter 486

Robert's POV

I kept my gaze locked onto her trembling face as the words piled up in my throat like the weight of mountains. My tongue refused to form a standard reply, my chest contracting beneath the shock of a hidden realization that had just seeped directly into my blood. I closed my eyes for a single second to marshal my voice, then answered with a chilling coldness mixed with a burning bitterness.

"Yes..." I exhaled, my jaw tightening. "...I understand."

Julie slowly lifted her darkened gaze toward me, her trembling lips parting as words spilled past them that shattered the very foundation of my being and leveled every expectation I had left:

"Did... did you ever feel like you were powerful?"

She leaned closer, her eyes burning with an intense, unsettling clarity.

"...Like you held absolute authority over ending a human life?"

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