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002. Will He Reject Me?

Author: NIGHT OWL
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-16 01:44:09

ADELE’S POV

The garden had always been my safe place. A quiet corner of the palace where the flowers never judged and the wind never asked questions I didn’t want to answer. Today, though, even the beauty around me felt dull—muted like my heart.

I sat on the stone bench Emilia loved so much, the one tucked beneath the shade of a huge flowering tree. Light filtered through the leaves, warm and soft, but I couldn’t feel any of it. My hands twisted together in my lap. My chest felt tight, like someone had wrapped invisible fingers around my ribs and was slowly squeezing.

I didn’t want to cry again. I had cried enough last night to fill the palace fountain.

But the ache was still there. Heavy. Constant. Eating me from the inside.

Footsteps approached, light but confident. No one else in the palace walked quite like that—graceful yet grounded, like she carried the weight of an entire kingdom but never let it crush her.

Emilia.

“Adele,” she called softly.

I didn’t look up. If I did,
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