Chapter One Hundred One - Wonder

Valkyrie Behati

I can't wrap my head around it. Why would he want to do that now, after rejecting me in the first place? It doesn't make any sense, and it’s only getting more confusing as I think about it.

What’s really going on in that murderer’s head? I shivered, almost hugging myself for comfort. If it weren’t for Pau, I wouldn’t have known what he was planning. She saved me from walking into something much worse.

Pau’s voice softened, her expression darkening as she continued. “That’s when the vendor noticed me. The rest… it’s too much. I don’t want to talk about it. It’s just... too painful. No one should ever have to go through that.”

Her words lingered in the air, heavy with the weight of her unspoken trauma. The silence in the room stretched, each of us grappling with what she had revealed.

There were no words strong enough to respond, just the feeling of shared horror hanging between us.

“It’s okay,” Matt finally said, his voice soft but steady. “Don’t push yourself to say m