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.

sharp turn as his gaze turned steely. "You won't be able to escape. One day,

his hand, signaling for his men to back off, and

stoically in my position as a

else knew me well. They all wished for me to either disappear quickly or get myself in

later in the night, but I felt

loving, and it seemed to

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

not alone. You have me, and those who

onto her fading hand tightly, and it was almost like I was able to get

silently, bringing me

couldn't just give up like

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succeed, and

first rays of the morning seeped in through the gap in my curtains and

looked at the world that was slowly brightening. I have made a decision

up. Then, I started to comb