Chapter 206: Just you wait and see.
She turned her piercing gaze back to Victoria, looking her up and down with a new, more specific interest. "So you're a subordinate as well?" she asked, her tone flat, neither believing nor disbelieving.
Being stared at so boldly, with such open scrutiny, ignited a spark of defiance in Victoria. Who was this woman to block the door? To question her? Almost reflexively, she reached out with her own senses, a delicate, invisible probe to gauge the strength of the obstacle before her.
It was like gently tapping on a mountainside and feeling the entire vast, immeasurable weight of the earth behind it.
Victoria's pupils dilated. A cold shock, sharper than any blade, shot down her spine. Her breath hitched in her throat. 'This is a joke…' her mind screamed, even as her body instinctively wanted to take a step back under the sudden, faint pressure that seemed to settle on her shoulders.
