'I hate this situation.'
'I hate the position that I have been put in.'
Those thoughts repeated inside Aditya's mind as he continued to sit there in silence. For someone like him, who had always relied on his ability to control situations and determine the direction of events, being placed in a position where every choice carried a painful consequence was something he despised.
As the Dragon Monarch, Aditya had always believed that the person with enough strength and determination should be the one controlling their own fate. He hated uncertainty.
He hated situations where he could not guarantee the outcome. Losing control meant being forced into decisions where there was no perfect answer, where every path would leave behind something that could never be recovered.
And this was exactly the kind of situation he feared the most.
