"Madam, are you sure you want to see him again?"Mira's voice was laced with palpable complexity and worry. Nadine stood in front of her study window. That morning, the Northern city sky was wrapped in a thin fog, as if hiding something. Her hands held a cup of coffee that was now cold."I have to, Mira. They will come with a new plan, and I need to be one step ahead.""I'm just afraid they will entrap you again," Mira whispered, almost pleading."This time, I am not the Nadine of the past," she said flatly, looking at her reflection in the glass. In the reflection, a mature and determined face was visible. "If they come with bad intentions, I will make sure they are the ones who get trapped, and this time, forever."Mira nodded in resignation, but her eyes still held a knot of worry. She knew that every time Davin's name was mentioned, something in Nadine's eyes changed—it was no longer a bleeding wound, but the remnants of a bitter taste that was not entirely dead, a kind of painful
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