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Faith was exhausted. She stood and stretched. "I'm gonna go freshen up for dinner, okay?"

"Okay, love," Devlin answered, already tapping away on his phone.

They'd been studying for the past three hours nonstop. Two hours separately and then the last hour, they spent quizzing each other on the things they'd read.

This was the format they'd adopted over the past few days. She'd already written two exams while he'd written one

From all indication, they'd all gone well. If they could keep on with this momentum, they would both do well on their exams.

Faith padded off to Devlin's room which they were now sharing. She sat on the bed and pulled one of her boxes to her. She hadn't opened this one since she arrived.

The small bag held her toiletries and make up and such which she arranged in the bathroom the day they arrived. She'd been using the clothes in the other bag till now. Most of them were off for laundry already.

As she opened the bag, a flash of red caught her attention. Faith frown
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