Chapter 92 - Crossing Paths (4)

Rose froze.

The moment those words left my mouth, it was as if an unseen force had slammed into her, locking her in place. The mere mention of Eclipse and Sesillian seemed to chain her to the ground, her body tensing as though shackled by something unseen.

Slowly, deliberately, she turned her head toward me, her expression caught somewhere between disbelief and dread.

"What did you just say…?"

Her voice was quiet, but it carried weight. A demand. A plea. A warning.

I met her gaze without flinching.

"I'm telling you—Sesillian is just a cog in a much bigger machine. Something far greater is pulling the strings, and he's nothing more than their puppet."

The silence between us stretched, thick and suffocating.

Shock flickered through her eyes, barely concealed beneath a veil of composure. I could see it—the war inside her mind. The struggle between rationality and the sheer impossibility of what I was saying.