Chapter 11 The Ice King's Gaze

POV: Liora Hayes

The chair completed its slow, deliberate rotation.

I had seen Darian Volkov on the news...grainy footage of him stepping out of courtrooms or blurry photos taken from a distance...but nothing prepared me for the sheer, suffocating weight of his presence in person. He didn't stand. He didn't offer a polite nod. He sat perfectly stil