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Author: Twinkle
last update Last Updated: 2025-01-12 23:51:12

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Alora's POV

If someone had told me this would happen, then I would have simply laughed in their faces that they were being delusional and had no idea what they were talking about. Over the years, I'd guarded my heart so heavily that nothing could penetrate, no matter how hard they tried and it had been working, it so I thought.

I'd practiced being stoic to things that would previously make me feel emotional,and I had swapped my overroy emotional heart, for one wrapped up and decided with steel. It had helped me become who I was today and now that I thought it was going to hold it's weight, it fell through.

I couldn't exactly pinpoint the remote cause of it all, but I broke down. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that Eliaz was out to ruin me or perhaps it could be likened to the fact that Fredrick had easily noticed my foul mood and opened his arms for me to run into.

I didn't want to, but that gesture was all it took me to snap. I buried my face deeper into his
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