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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Wow. It's look like I am on the golden garden!" The flowers was so beautiful, shining so brightly because it reflecting the moonlight. Cecilia's cant let her eyes but fixated on it.
Then she turned to the man next to her, "If you didn't take me to Hagrav, maybe I will never see this. Thank you."
Max saw her without saying a word. Cecilia always effortlessly, succeed took his breath away.
He is a mighty man from powerful guild. But in front of her, he's just a lovesick teen-boy.
At the same point, this feeling start to hurting him. Why did Cecilia fail to see him as a decent man?
Cecilia noticed his disappointment and mistakenly though that he must be wanted to see this beautiful scenery with his lover.
Something creeping in her heart as if his sadness was her, too. She wants to stay by his side.
But, it feels so wrong to love a man who loves anoth
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