A Beauty With Multiple Masks

Wendy’s heart skipped a beat the second she caught a glimpse of Arielle stepping inside the doors of the library.

Determined to not allow Aaron to see Arielle, she shot in front of him and obscured his line of sight. With a wry smile, she said, “Actually, there’s nothing interesting to see there, so why don’t we head over to the school museum first?”

That confounded Aaron. “Didn’t you just tell me that the library here is the grandest one amongst all within Chanaea’s higher institutes of learning? Why aren’t we going in now that we’re here?”

“It’s because…” Wendy hastily tried to cook up something. “It suddenly occurred to me that no matter how big or impressive libraries are, they’re kind of the same anyway.”

“I won’t argue against that.”

That offered Wendy a moment’s breather until Aaron added, “But since we’re already here, we might as well go in and check it out.”

Wendy’s chest tightened and she looked to intervene, but Aaron was already headed inside.

Left with no alternatives, she could only grit her teeth and play along

She could not afford to make it too obvious, lest it aroused his suspicions.

head in disapproval. “It’s a lot less

of Arielle’s

what he said, it irrepressibly piqued her curiosity. “Our school library previously became a popular search topic domestically because of its size and splendor, so where exactly

eyes and smirked menacingly. “I hope that’s the last time I’m hearing you ask me

she could clearly see the

pressed up against her chest, threatening to pierce through

something like that was from Vinson,

that she became dumbstruck and started

that there were unfathomable secrets to Arron and it was this mysteriousness

man who was sufficiently mysterious must possess tremendous strength,

perhaps she might not have been as desperate to marry him. Practically drawn to him like a moth to a flame, her heart fluttered and increasingly gravitated toward Aaron in

and scanned his eyes through the first floor of the library again in a

Arielle herself.

absence from the vicinity. “The interiors of the floors beyond look more or less the same as this one. Since you don’t think this

the library had already sent him