Chapter 685 A Peaceful Storm

Now? She really didn’t like the ocean anymore.

“You’re awake?”

The man’s voice came from behind her.

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Tessa turned and saw Victor standing at the end of the wooden walkway, a plate of grilled food in hand.

Seeing him confirmed it wasn’t a dream–Victor had really found her.

And in that moment, something inside her heart completely shifted.

He walked up and, seeing her silent, reached out and gently rubbed the top of her head.

“Did you sleep well?”

He was trying to be gentle.

But he wasn’t like Abraham, who treated Stella with warmth simply out of habit.

Abraham exuded a calm, refined tenderness.

Victor, though–when he tried to be soft, it felt like steel wrapped in velvet. A rough kind of gentleness.

Tessa blushed faintly and nodded. “Mm.”

Ugh…

A flash of memory surfaced–her wrapping her arms around Victor in front of Marie. She wanted to die of embarrassment.

Her mom’s few words to her growing up had always been, “Girls should be

reserved.”

Chapter 685 A Peaceful Storm

But back then? She’d forgotten everything.

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Without realizing it, in those few short days by Victor’s side, she’d become emotionally attached to him.

It didn’t feel like they’d only known each other for a handful of days–it felt… much longer.

led

brought her

didn’t touch the grilled fish,

frowned. “You don’t like

him a pitiful look. “I’ve been eating fish non–stop this whole

was sick of

sight of fish made her

so fed up made Victor chuckle softly. “Looks like she really put you

she couldn’t even eat

Tessa went quiet.

her time with Marie–it really had been a

remembered everything

still felt grateful to

Ethan, that dominating man, and she never imagined she’d

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herself.

And yet…

my phone? I

left so suddenly–Marie was

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slept, but considering the change in location and the time of day, it must’ve been

said, “No

told her?”

He nodded calmly. “Mm.”

already

could thank her properly once they got

time,

that was so

the best meal she’d had in a long

since arriving in Falvaria, she hadn’t eaten

Rivermount. Just thinking about it made her

was

her to felt like a peaceful world

chaos.

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the sound of waves remained. The lighting along the

Later that night.

Silas called Victor away, leaving Tessa alone in the

but realized her phone wasn’t

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