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CHAPTER 7- MARKED

Author: Esib
last update publish date: 2026-09-17 19:38:39

I couldn't stop thinking about Cassian, not just about the way he'd looked at me yesterday or the strange things he'd said, but about how little any of it made sense.

If he really saw me as nothing more than another trainee, why had he looked at me that way in the garden? Why had he spent the entire training session avoiding my eyes, only to tell me to be careful around him when I finally confronted him? And most importantly, why was my mate the one asking me to stay away from him?

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