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Chapter 36

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Chapter 36

Xavier's POV

Guilt enveloped me as I held on to the sobbing girl. The first lesson you learn as a visitor in the Bloodmoon pack house is that the walls had ears and eyes that pried where they did not belong.

If it wasn't any different here, within Crescent moon borders, then I was in for a lot of trouble with the princess of the palace sobbing incessantly into my arms.

"Hey. Let's go somewhere when we're older. We could go anywhere then," I said finally and watched as her eyes went from sad to hopeful.

"Yes. I'll go anywhere with you." My cheeks must have turned red in that moment. Hearing those words was like a confirmation to my faulted emotions. It was not one sided after all.

The awkward smiles building between us after her bold comment made me even more nervous than I already was.

"Good. I start high school next month." I blurted, an attempt to distract her from the fidgeting motion of my nervous hands.

I soon realised how much of a terrible mistake that was as
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