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Chapter: 96.

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Both friends drove to work in comforting silence. Tide had told them that morning while they had breakfast that Matthew had agreed to grant the SoulPearl to him although he seemed very tired he could barely finish his breakfast that morning Alexander had to take him up to their bedroom and put him down gently on it so he would sleep, brushing his lips against the sleeping Merman's before leaving to go meet Easton by the door, waiting.

With the help of the Mountain Tears, Tide's colors have returned, his Soulpearl recovering fast. Alexander couldn't be more grateful knowing that his Merman was healing, by the time they returned home he was certain Tide would be waiting to greet them at the door wearing that alluring smile on his face.

That smile he would often see on Matthew's face.

There is something about Tide and Matthew, something unique and it confuse him. Countless times he has tried to figure it out but it would leave him so completely drained he either falls