Chapter 29

“Nora,” Harrison saul, his face fushed weath excitement, “you can’t tell me you’re not in love with her now. Isn’t she just amazing?

Noca hestated, a small smile playing on her lips

Noua found herselt standing amidst the deafening cheers of the crowil, her emotions a quiet storm compared to the chaos around her.

She looked at Arnold once again, his focus entirely on Lista.

eyes glimmered with admutations, a book she had long yearned for but never truly received.

A sadden thought crossed her mind

What if I reached out? What if past this once, he responded?

Het bears wavered, and despite her better judgment, she decided to try. Mindlinking Arnold, she sent a tentative message. “Arnold?”

Suence

Her shoulders sagged as the realization settled in though deep down, she wasn’t surprised.

swer. She thought, watching him with a bitter smule. Arnold’s gaze never left Linda, as if the world had narrowed to only her. Nora’s chest tightened, but she managed to sinile, calm and composed, even as the faint sting of rejection lingered.

Turning on her heel, she walked away from the awards stage.

She didn’t glance

to see Arnold’s oblivious face or Linda’s radiant

she wove through the thinning crowd, Harrison’s enthusiastic

a legend” Not only is she the reigning champion, but did you know she’s the only daughter

as magnetic as her skills. No

let it roll off her like water. Harrison hadn’t even noticed her leaving, too engrossed in singing

Her footsteps:

of frustration, hurt, and an odd sense

simply being herself, shining

issue lay with Arnold and the years she had spent hoping

lot, a rool breeze brushed against her

she thought it might be Arnold.

nothing –

she shippest the phone back to

into

interrupted her thoughts soft

a

fand glow

walked toward ber

her thoughts preoccupiest,

with someone coming trouu the opposite

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his expression hardening

and an air of arrogance

air of superiority, a reflection of the tight–knit pack hierarchy he thrived

as he studied her, his

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