Chapter 198
Stephanie's POV
Silence draped over the room like a heavy concrete wall. Breath was completely cut off between us as Grandfather Victor's eyes flashed with a burning, hostile glare, locking his pupils onto Valentina's trembling frame.
I felt my pulse hammering violently against my temples as I monitored the dramatic shift in her features. The defiant, arrogant confidence she had been weaponizing just seconds ago utterly evaporated. In its place settled a sudden, paralyzing terror that turned her face as pale as a corpse, her fingers clutching the bedsheets with a hysterical tightness, as if desperately searching for an impossible lifeline.
