“Tobias!”

Queena rushed into the house, grabbing Tobias by the arm and pulling him outside in a hurry.

“What are you doing at my place?”

Tobias' gaze couldn't help but fall on the man lying in the bed.

The man was in bad shape, looking worse off than the heartthrob back at his own place, but he was strikingly handseven just

lying there. Tobias couldn't help but wonder what he'd look like with his eyes open.

“Queena, who's this guy?”

He hadn’t seen Queena in five years. When he was six, she went abroad for her studies, the only one from the village to do so, and

not just for any degree, but for a master’s - she was the pride of the village.

“He’s a friend, Tobias. You can’t tell anyone he's here, okay? It's our little secret.”

Tobias nodded, “Got it. Is he your boyfriend or something?”

A hint of blush crept onto Queena’s face, “It's complicated.”

Tobias burst into a grin, “Aha, you've got the hots for him! Don’t worry, my lips are sealed.”

“But what did you chere for?”

“The good-looking guy at my place is in trouble; his wound reopened. You gotta ccheck it out.”

Queena nudged him out the door, “Alright, just wait outside for a sec, I'll be right there.”

door behind her

of light, but it let in enough sunshine to reveal the

recognize him

his forehead for

had broken, and she breathed a sigh of

face, lost in thought.

a smuggler's boat, followed by a

on the research facility's screen, she was

him, hidden in the shadows, as

she instinctively grabbed his

she was and froze, but there was no

was lucky to escape unscathed, but he lay close by,

a helicopter

was swarming with people that day, so

as a researcher, conducting numerous experiments on human

or medication, her medical skills were exceptional, and she was certain she could

for her.

up, they would live a peaceful life together in the

excited Queena, a smile curling

outside, more urgent

“Queena, you ready yet?”

with a

Tobias down the

awake, his face a pale

this is Queena. Don't worry,

Abner’s

drop the study abroad talk, will

head, grinning ear to ear, “Heh, it’s

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