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CHAPTER EIGHT

Author: Becca
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-26 06:05:18

ADELE’s POV.

Training for the day is done and almost everyone has retired to their dorms. If you ask me the name of the gods that gave me the audacity to sneak out of my room to where Bastian said I should meet him, I would not be able to tell you but here I am sneaking past soldiers towards the big three at the back of the armory. Where the heck did I get the courage from and how did he even know of this place?

I flatten my body against the wall when I see a group of soldiers patrolling. I swear I will give Bastian a tight slap if I am caught.

Luckily they pass by me in the silent night and I continue to get to the tree but there is no one there.

Did he not come after he made me risk my life to be here? What a jerk.

“Hey” a voice calls out behind me and I turn around to see him walking towards me, bare to the waist. I swallow hard at the figure in front of me, he looks good, too good if you ask me.

Bastian has always been a handsome man but seeing his well sculpted body that has been
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