Rewriting My Heart's Fate

I backed up fearfully. I didn't expect so many people to still be here.

It did seem like I no longer had a way out. I was surrounded by all these people, so I had no choice but to accept my fate.

He walked toward me slowly, his steps seemed to be unusually heavy as he tensed up the air around him with every step.

The fruit knife in my hand trembled slightly. Hopelessness and unwillingness filled my gaze.

However, in the heat of the moment, he stopped in his tracks. He didn't come any closer.

"Interesting. I didn't expect you to be acquainted with the Graysons. This time, I won't do anything to you solely because of them."

Amusement colored his tone, and the air around him relaxed a little.

I was stunned. The Graysons?

That was a strange yet familiar term to me. It seemed to have opened the seal of a certain box in my memory, but I didn't have time to think more about it at that moment.

gaze turned steely. "You won't be able to

back off, and got into the car. The

stoically in my position as a

the other people of the Grayson family, no one else knew me well. They all wished for me to either disappear

dragged my exhausted body back home later in the night, but I felt like

to have chased away all the negativity

caressed my head gently and comforted me with her familiar yet gentle voice. "Don't be afraid, Eve. No matter

alone. You have me, and those

was almost like I was able to get strength from the warmth of her

me a sense of

couldn't just give up like this

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succeed, and

through the gap in my curtains and fell on my

opened my eyes slowly and looked at the world that was

up and washed up. Then, I started to