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CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Author: Swiwi
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-22 16:21:26

Andre’s POV

The courtyard was empty now. Only the echo of wood striking wood lingered, a phantom rhythm in the cold air. I stood alone, hands clasped behind my back, watching where Zara had collapsed hours ago, gasping like a fish flung onto land.

She had gotten up.

Again and again.

More times than I’d thought she could.

I should have felt satisfied. I had designed the drills to break her. To remind her she was fragile. To prove to her, and to myself, that she did not belong on a battlefield.

Instead, she had survived them.

Barely, yes. But survival is survival.

I clenched my jaw.

That girl was not supposed to be in my head like this.

When I had seen her in the dining hall two nights ago, chin high, refusing to bend beneath my gaze, I had told myself it was a fluke. A flicker of defiance born of desperation. I thought it would vanish the moment the weight of real pain settled onto her shoulders.

But today has proven me wrong.

Every time she staggered to her feet, fire flickered in her
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