Chapter 163

RYN

I remained stunned as I sat on the floor of the living room, back at the Watcher’s mansion.

Looking through the documents, I realized my parents had major stakes in real estate, technology, and so on, most of which were based in the east.

I wonder why that was.

No one talks about the East. No one even knows whether it’s a kingdom or just a place.

It just is.

But my parents had most of their businesses and assets there.

Is that why I remember nothing of my past? Is that why no one here in the West recognizes my status?

I sighed, rubbing my temple, and just then, El came downstairs with a pair of boxing gloves.

“Get up. It’s time to train.”

I let out a groan. Is she being serious right now? Can’t she see that I am currently, emotionally down and I need a moment?!

I’m sure you’re not deaf.” El added her tone, hard, as she reached the door and found me still sitting.

“I don’t want to train today. I mumbled and El frowned like she was confused.

“You don’t get to decide when you train, Ryn. I decide that, so for the last time, get up and let’s train.” She said, and then she left the house.

Knowing after this comes punishment, I threw a childish tantrum before reluctantly getting up and storming out of the house.

The morning was too beautiful for the

way

I felt.

Birds chirped somewhere high above, their songs which were light and carefree contrasted greatly with the storm brewing inside me. My boots crunched against the autumn leaves as I trudged through the woods, fists shoved deep in the pockets of my hoodie.

ahead–I could see her silhouette in the clearing, standing calm and patient like always. Her arms

maintaining its

I just stood there for a moment, trying to calm the ache

she ordered, pointing to the pair of boxing gloves lying on the grass

down, yanking them on roughly, the

body was here, but my mind was elsewhere, churning over the inheritance, over what had been stolen from me, over the years of pain that had piled

slow,”

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the circle she’d drawn in the dirt days ago,

holding up

“Yeah.”

didn’t comment. She simply adjusted, stepping back and letting

“Focus, Ryn. Breathe.”

I punched again, harder this time. I imagined

El murmured.

in my chest grew tighter with every blow, like a dam about to break. My eyes stung, my

blurted, my voice cracking

nothing, letting

yelled, slamming my fist into the pad. “Everything!” Another

face. My punches became wild, fueled by everything I couldn’t say–years of betrayal, years of silence. El absorbed every hit, never flinching, never

my weight into the last punch. My fist connected harder than I’d meant to, and the impact sent El

a sharp thud, sliding several feet away

.

stop.

body trembled, and I thought the worst of myself, then to my relief, she stirred and the relief that

gasped, running toward

sat up, wiping

been holding back,” she

blinked at

punch…” She looked up at me, her eyes filled with fire. “It had something real behind

still falling. She didn’t push just sat there,

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