Chapter 82 - Chapter 82: The Point of No Return

The city outside was restless, but Kian was still. The world moved, the lights flickered, the distant hum of traffic and life pulsed below them, but none of it touched the silence stretching between him and Adrian, thick with the weight of everything unspoken. Kian had spent years perfecting control, mastering the art of distance, ensuring that nothing—no one—ever got close enough to matter. He had built his world on dominance, on sharp edges and cold calculations, on knowing the next move before anyone else could even think to make theirs. But here, standing in this room with Adrian, none of that mattered anymore. Because Adrian had never been like the others. He had never fit into the neat little boxes Kian had created for the people in his life—ally, enemy, threat, pawn. Adrian had never played the game. And that made him the most dangerous of all.