Chapter 484:- Inside the Starlight Mansion [II]

The heavy silence in the living room was like a palpable weight on Aditya's shoulders, pressing down on him, suffocating him. The only sound that pierced the silence was the genteel sipping of tea, a noise that seemed to reverberate through the room with each delicate slurp. Lilith's proximity was doing little to ease his tension. She was sitting so close to him that he could feel the heat of her body, and her piercing gaze was locked onto him, never wavering. Her eyes seemed to bore into his soul.

Trying to distract himself from her unsettlingly intense stare, Aditya focused on the teacup in his hands, finding strange comfort in its mundane design. He needed to break the silence, to divert his mind from the path it was wandering down.

"So where is Sasha?" he asked, his voice slightly more strained than he would have liked. He continued to study the teacup, as though hoping it could shield him from Lilith's intoxicating presence.

Sip!