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Chapter 5

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Inside the room, we were talking and laughing.

Caleb sat next to me and kept serving me food. He asked how life in Goldstone had been treating me, as if nothing had happened in the hall.

My parents watched us with relieved smiles.

"Caleb hasn't changed a bit since he was little. He's always been the one looking out for everyone. Take good care of Sienna for us."

I smiled a little and let it go.

"You two seem to get along well. Give it a few more months, then go ahead with the mating ceremony. Yo
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