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Chapter 18
No matter what happened, Ava, don't you dare come back to Sybil.
She could almost hear her father again as she walked down the hallway away from the men from Sybil.
But she need not be told. She knew better than to go back.
She could not allow the enemy to get hold of her. Ever.
**
"And she called herself a civilian-" Alec muttered as he took a gulp of beer. "Heck, she's been acting General on us. We can even act more civil than her. She's no longer in the military premises yet she is more cold-blooded than any hardened soldier. What is up with her?"
He recalled her stiffness, her inanimate way of speaking which is a steady lifeless tone... and yet there was no impatience in it. How can she spoke forcefully yet managed a calm voice, he had wondered.
They were in a classy bar on the second floor of the ship, seated beside each other on a b
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