Chapter 460 – Greed is a Hoarder
He turned his head. Met her eyes. And with the kind of stillness that came from centuries of cold-blooded ambition, he said.
"I wait."
Rava blinked. "That's it?"
"I wait until they realize they do. Or I let them go."
He looked down.
"Not because I'm kind. But because I don't beg. Ever."
Silence again.
The kind of silence that wasn't empty—but sharp.
Clean.
Like the edge of a contract waiting to be signed in blood.
But inside?
His mind wasn't quiet.
Because he had begged before.
Almost two centuries ago.
He could still feel it, like rust under his nails.
They had left him alone.
Zavros and Seraphyne—Greed and Lust, his so-called loving parents.
