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.

“It’s a lot less than I expected.

of Arielle’s whereabouts so that she might

he said, it irrepressibly piqued her curiosity. “Our school library previously became a popular

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

suddenly gripped by terror as she could clearly see the

up against her chest, threatening to pierce through it at

 

 

something like that was from Vinson,

was so cowed that she became dumbstruck

secrets to Arron and it was this mysteriousness that

mysterious must possess tremendous strength, and she

Vinson only had that pretty face without that fearsome aura and the Nightshire Group behind him, 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

away and scanned his eyes through the first floor of the library

Arielle herself.

to have confirmed the latter’s 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 place is grand enough for you, shall we move on to

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