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Chapter 99 Who Are You To Me?

Author: BELLA
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

The one time Leonica found the most gripping each time she settled down to read her favorite books, were the pin drop moment.

Suspense, silence and uncertainty. Those three went pleasant well during that particular moment and made the story all the more interesting and gripping to her as a devoted reader. But heck, she had never for once sat down and thought about how she’d handle such a situation if it was her faced with it, rather than the Mary Sue female leads in the books she read.

Thus, a minute after Gabriel had asked the question he did, Leonica still remained silent, unsure of how to answer the question.

Who was she to him? Even she wondered, but right now obviously wasn’t the time for her to seat back and indulge herself with the pleasure of trying to figure that question out. Right now, she needed to answer the question which had been asked.

But even with that mindset put at the forefront of her mind, Leonica still couldn’t bring herself to answer, after all, if she wasn’t s
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