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Author: Deborah Myers
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-21 05:55:31

Ashley

Initially, I thought I had taken Zane's offer because of the possibility of being close to Daisy, but the moment I got back to my little room in the Grove, I knew that I was merely lying to myself.

I wanted to be close to Zane, too. There was a lot about him I didn't know, and I was eager to uncover every layer of him, piece by piece.

The next day, I got up extra early to get prepared to go and see Daisy at the Grove. I quickly made the batch of healing salves and tinctures requested of me by Alicia, and turned them in before setting off.

Daisy, as usual, was excited to see me. “Ashley! You really came!” She practically jumped onto me. “Zane said you'd still be coming to see me but I wasn't so sure.”

“Why weren't you sure? Don't you trust me?”

She nodded, shaking her little blond pigtails. “I do. I just don't have many people that have been coming to see me. My mother stays away because she says that seeing me here makes her sad. And Bryce and Clara are very busy—even Zane too.
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