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2024-04-26 05:29:03Haven gotten no sleep at night, what was supposed to be a little dozing off and nap turned out to be a few hours of sleep with her stretching over the three seater sofa and waking up with a little drool in the side of her mouth.
Gift was startled awake with a sense of emergency and the feeling of being watched, but she woke up to a rather relaxing scene of Zenith having a normal conversation with some other guy that she didn't recognize until he introduced himself.
Zenith had noticed that she was awake from the first time she fluttered her eyes but he had pretended to be engrossed in the conversation he was having with Trenor instead.
“Did I sleep for long?” Gift asked softly as she rubbed her eyes, stretched and sat up. Trenor reacted first as he turned with a smile.
“The sleeping beauty has finally woken up, here, have some water,” he said as he gave
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