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After Estelle left, Jonathan sat on the couch, lighting up a cigarette, and said to Sylvia, “You’ve done well. Go get some rest.”

Sylvia poured herself a glass of wine and strolled to the floor-to-ceiling window to gaze out at the night lights of Zion. In such a sprawling, sleepless city, where could Gab be?

Was he really in Zion?

She turned to Jonathan and said, “Mr. Jarvis, the Mystoria Federation under your control, as well as Gab’s Silver Valley, are both havens. Let’s make Citadel a haven, too.”

She had first met Gab in Citadel.

Back then, there was a place called Red Grotto, notorious for auctioning off young girls, and she was among those being sold.

Sold by her parents—more precisely, her adoptive parents—and taken from the border, after an arduous journey, she ended up in Citadel, the so-called hell on earth.

Gab was ten years older than her. At just eighteen, he was already a young man of steady and profound disposition.

When he passed by the cage she was locked in, she reached out and clung to the hem of his coat. He turned and said coldly, “Let go!”

She didn’t relent, gripping tightly, her eyes pleading with him in silence.

He shook off her hand harshly and walked away without looking back.

watched his retreating figure in

her for three times the price of an ordinary

the murky auction house. He walked ahead, and she followed his every step

silhouette backlit, and to the young girl she was, he seemed godlike—handsome and

“From today on, you’re mine. But I should warn you, life with me can be hard, perhaps even harder than being bought

her head firmly. “I’m

such faith that he wouldn’t hurt her—a naive thought she would later

was always a mystery to

exhaled a stream of smoke and said, “Citadel was never a haven,

slightly, about to speak, when suddenly Alvis’s man

by the age of twenty-two, then spent three years wandering

mercenaries and took part in

once the war was over, he

family as the heir apparent.Books Chapters

descendant, he was highly valued by his family, and he was indeed exceptional in

to his contributions to

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