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"Rest with you?" Gale raised his brow. “Is that an invitation?"

“Ah—N—no, I—I just thought that you need rest. Since you..... uhm... you just went to war..... or something, I don't know much..." Swan stammered as she lowered her head bashfully. She fiddled with her fingers, trying to tell Gale to rest. "Y-you might get sick if you are too tired."

"I'm not a weak human. I cannot get sick, nor can I physically tire myself," Gale said.

He wasn't lying. Truthfully, he didn't need sleep nor would he fall ill to any disease. It was just the psychological pressure and stress that made him long for a comfortable rest, just so he wouldn't snap at anyone on sight. "But I'll take your offer."

Gale sat on the bed and wrapped his arms around Swan's waist to pull her deeper into

his embrace.

Swan was so small compared to him, and it roused the protective feeling in his heart. He murmured, "I'm sorry, Swan."

“For what?” Swan asked in confusion. “You... you have been very good to me.”

"I failed to protect you today, and I still don't know what truly happened at the lake," Gale muttered. "I

should've killed Rock for attacking you, but you are unharmed, so I don't have the heart to kill him for a sin he had yet to commit."

"P-please don't hurt him."

"Why not? He almost hurt you."

"But he doesn't mean it," Swan replied. "I-I think he's not being himself at the lake. He was so kind to me before." (1

Gale's lips thinned. He wondered if Swan realized that Rock had been lusting over her the whole time, mostly because she wore a dress that exposed half of her breasts.

norm in Holy Achate, but for a young wolf like Rock, he might find her body very enticing. Combined with how Jade poisoned his mind into thinking that he was in love with Swan, it was possible that Rock simply lost control over himself, though very unlikely, knowing that Swan was already

doesn't matter whether you think he was kind to you or not. I still have to

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asked. “Uhm... he is a

stay imprisoned. We,

Rock. For once she was also imprisoned inside her shabby room in the Holy Achate Palace since she was young, only allowed to

torture that she didn't want anyone se to suffer, especially when that person didn't hurt her at

get fed up. "I know you have a good opinion about

now."

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unjustly imprisoned, Swan was unwilling to back

me that look. You know I'm just

is not

about to die in his hands

"He didn't mean it."

knew what he was doing at

I—I can

"SWAN!"

with fear in her eyes, before lowering her head obediently,

for a man she just met. "If you care about him that much, why don't you replace him? I will lock you in that dungeon so he can be free.” Initially,

Swan nodded without a sliver of hesitation as if

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the sake of