LEA’S POV The corridor stretched out before me, its polished marble surface reflecting the sunlight that filtered through the tall windows. The corridors were quiet today, given the fact that I had been assigned the task of cleaning every single corridor on the lower floors. I preferred the silence; it gave me enough room to think, even if that was the last thing I should have been doing.A bucket of water filled with soap was beside me, a cloth in my hand, and I dragged it across the floor in strokes, back and forth, a repetitive motion I used to scrub off the dirt. I kept moving mechanically, my mind unable to think about anything but what I had seen in the forest yesterday.My grip tightened around the cloth, my movements slowing just for a split second before I picked up the momentum. The image replayed in my mind over and over again, whether I wanted it to or not. The image of Mirabeth standing too close to that Alpha, her expression soft, her cheeks flushed, and the way she lau
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